CNN and YouTube hosted a debate for the Democratic presidential candidates in July (the Republicans get their turn tomorrow). Then MySpace and MTV collaborated for presidential dialogues at universities. Now, yesterday, Facebook announced a joining of forces with ABC News to sponsor upcoming presidential debates.
If you watched the CNN-YouTube and were dismayed by the lack of quality questions chosen, you weren’t alone. That’s because the audience that loiters and fools around with YouTube isn’t that quality either. And then the MySpace-MTV forums featured even more watered down questions that barely grasped the surface of politics. We’re talking about MTV — synonymous with style over substance. So the basket is set low for Facebook to slam dunk.
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