CNN/YOUTUBE DEBATE PART 2

[KLoCTube]

This video is another example of how entertainment directly correlates to numbers and is more important than intellect. This video shows that not even things as serious as a presidential debate are immune to choosing a more entertaining YouTube video than one that is more intellectual, just because of numbers and ratings.

[geboris]

i like the part where they say "joe-nalism"

[MediaPraxisme]

TOUR #2: ENTERTAINMENT, Sonya asks us to consider what we lose when we fill up on bite sized tasty chunks of sweet funny video. Access to more video, and more voices, changes little if the forms of these videos and voices refer back to what we already know in ways that already make us comfortable, or even if they create new creature comforts rather than the serious efforts needed for democracy.

[MediaPraxisme]

You made one of the few finals that was willing to be critical of how popularity, humor, and summary work against some of our needs as a democracy even as access to voice expands.