The MySpace/MTV Candidates Forum - The social networking site and music channel will present intimate talks with Presidential candidates. Will their youthful audiences care?
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"Want to be friends with Obama? Or Hillary? How about Rudy or Mitt, or any of the other Presidential candidates? MySpace and MTV figure there's a growing number of young people just itching to ask questions of the major candidates. Together, they're launching a series of one-on-one discussions with each of the Presidential candidates that will be shown on the Web and on television.
It's the latest experiment in participatory democracy, Internet style, that has become a huge new outlet for every political candidate worth his (or her) fund-raising committee. The joint deal between News Corp.'s (NWS) MySpace unit and Viacom's (VIA) MTV network was hammered out "literally in a few days," says MySpace Chief Executive Officer Chris DeWolfe, as both outlets saw the opportunity to help educate younger viewers."
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