Thursday, July 19, 2007

Politics Kills the Video Star

It was safe to assume that by now there would be numerous reinterpretations of the abrupt, clipped-off final scene of “The Sopranos.” It begs to be manipulated, mashed-up and parodied by the video-savvy merrymakers of the YouTube generation. But who could have predicted that presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton would be among those with her own Web riff?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19337191/site/newsweek/
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Although campaigning via the internet to entice the younger generations by forms of social networking websites, can easily backfire. With a formidable candidate like Hillary Clinton, a youtube parady of a "Sopranos" episode might be little out of her political gaming arena. Hillary Clinton has already established a reputation for being conservative. A video showing how hip, personable and "with the people" via youtube might harm her political image. She should continue with the strong and formidable persona she has already established and continue to run with that strategy.

1 comment:

Ashley :-P said...

I think that however candidates decide to try to get people is fine. Less young people currently vote and maybe using a young person friendsly system like u tube would get more yound people voting.