Another YouTube upload by Barack Obama
For years, people have been saying that radio is dead.
But yesterday, Barack Obama may have put another nail in the coffin when he posted his second weekly address to the nation on YouTube. The tradition of the weekly radio address (which dates back to President Franklin D. Roosevelt) has gone viral.
The president-elect plans to continue the practice once he is sworn in, his transition team says. In fact, it intends to create a White House YouTube channel.
It's no surprise, of course. Obama built much of his campaign on the Internet, and YouTube is a fast (and free) forum to speak to anyone online. As L.A. Times technology writer Jessica Guynn points out, it could become a powerful platform to generate support for his policies.
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Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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A good speech by a great leader. Is it me, or does he look a little tired? :-D
Posted by: Sunshine | November 16, 2008 at 06:29 PM
Not only is he addressing the nation via radio as most of the presidents of my generation have done; he is now making it so that if I have plans that interfere with my being near a radio at the time of the address I can now log on to the website and hear the address at my convenience. Another innovative way to get the message out to the people. I think it's fantastic that we finally have a president (elect) that is utilizing the technology of our generation to the full advantage of all and with a greater purpose.
Posted by: Gene Corbin | November 16, 2008 at 09:51 PM
"A good speech by a great leader."
A great leader?
He didn't do much in the Senate, so you can't be speaking about that.
You meant a great campaigner, right?
Posted by: GEAH | November 17, 2008 at 12:14 AM