Changing the Terms of Debate

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"The CNN/YouTube presidential debate, in which voters submitted online videos with questions for the Democratic candidates, was praised in some quarters as the most earthshaking change in communication technology for presidential politics since the Kennedy-Nixon debates in 1960.

But the format was still basically the same one that’s been used for nearly 50 years: candidates standing on a stage, answering questions selected by the news media during a made-for-television broadcast.

The Republican CNN/YouTube debate is now scheduled for Nov. 28. The Op-Ed page asked seven people with experience in both new media and old to answer the question: What would a real new-media debate look like?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/opinion/17newmediadebate.html

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