Obama White House to Broadcast Weekly Radio Address on YouTube

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mashable.com - 11/14/2008

Obama White House to Broadcast Weekly Radio Address on YouTube

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Some signs of how President-elect Barack Obama will use his massive Internet following are starting to surface. The President’s weekly radio address, a staple of American politics since the Franklin Roosevelt administration, will be posted to YouTube, starting this week with the Democratic ...

voices.washingtonpost.com - 11/14/2008

The YouTube Presidency

— voices.washingtonpost.com — By Jose Antonio Vargas The White House has gone YouTube. Today, President-elect Obama will record the weekly... Democratic address not just on radio but also on video -- a first. The address, typically four minutes long, will be turned into a YouTube ... (more) The YouTube Presidency

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ft.com - 11/17/2008

FT.com / Companies / Media - Rival forecast to catch YouTube

— ft.com — YouTube is in danger of being upstaged commercially by a smaller upstart backed by News Corporation and... NBC Universal as the video-sharing site struggles to make its massive global audience appeal to advertisers. Hulu, a video site showing only ... (more) FT.com / Companies / Media - Rival forecast to catch YouTube

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change.gov - 11/15/2008

Your Weekly Address from the President-elect

— change.gov — For the first time, the weekly Democratic address has been released as a web video. It will... also continue to air on the radio. President-elect Obama plans to to publish these weekly updates through the Transition and then from the White House. ... (more) Your Weekly Address from the President-elect

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Barack Obama plans to post weekly YouTube address
Download Squad — ... will be the first president to use YouTube in this way, as Obama's transition team is trying to do. The video sharing site didn't exist when President George W. Bush was running for office. So all it really means is that President Bush didn't use YouTube. While Obama won't be sworn in as president until January, he has started to delive the weekly Democratic Party radio address, which will also be videotaped and uploaded to YouTube and to Change.gov. [via Mashable] Barack Obama plans to post weekly YouTube address originally appeared on ...

Obama Brings YouTube to the White House
Zatz Not Funny! — ... Don’t get me wrong. I’m entirely supportive of an Obama administration that uses YouTube. But I wonder how well the administration will be able to use it. Will the weekly addresses come across as oratory or conversation? Should the President really have an ongoing conversation with the public or should he be operating at an entirely different level? Will the YouTube channel have comments enabled? Will the adminstration ever respond to comments? Will other video sites or bloggers be able to distribute or embed segments? The questions go on and on, and I certainly ...