2008 Primary Season: Web-revolution

The democratic and republican primaries are in full swing. I’ve been way behind on the issues until I discovered that you can get great online coverage from Current TV’s website. Everything they air on their channel can be accessed easily using the internet.

Current employs a citizen journalism approach to each primary, which basically means almost anyone armed with a video camera can have a say. Then, Current edits all the footage from these citizen journalists together with other segments to give you various aspects of whatever primary they are covering. Some of the episodes even include professional documentary segments. I remember enjoying a segment from the New Hampshire primary that focused on how America is viewed by people in other countries. The opinions were gathered by random representatives who simply walked around a city with a Sony camcorder interviewing whoever they wanted.

The channel also includes feedback from the viewer, which they call viewpoints. A viewer can send in a video response to a topic or episode using something as simple as a web cam. Anyone with a computer and web cam can tape a response, attach it to an email and send it into Current within minutes! Sometimes it’s a lot more interesting to listen to random people’s opinions then see the candidates’s endless debates.

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