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Comments on: Politics as entertainment http://wendellrobinson.com/wenBLOG/2007/07/31/politics-as-entertainment/ ...what I think and why Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:27:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Jill http://wendellrobinson.com/wenBLOG/2007/07/31/politics-as-entertainment/#comment-3523 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:45:00 +0000 http://wendellrobinson.com/wenBLOG/2007/07/31/politics-as-entertainment/#comment-3523 1. I say it because viewership is still falling all around and even without falling viewership, we're still talking about basically the same several millions. It's not enough to say we can abandon other methods. What you've said is that the media coverage is overwhelming - but what about the watching? And even then, so what if people watch? How many of them believe what they hear or are impacted by what they see? Isn't that part of what blogs work to balance, to say we can be our own filters - but that means we need access to the raw sources. 2. Again - entertaining or not - I didn't look at it that way. I watch so little television to start. Learn what we didn't know? Eh - I'll give you a draw on that only because I didn't watch the whole thing and honestly, I barely listen to the content. Why don't I listen to the content? Because you and I both know that we have far better sources and antennae than most people watching that debate - so what we think the candidates think comes from other sources. 1. I say it because viewership is still falling all around and even without falling viewership, we’re still talking about basically the same several millions. It’s not enough to say we can abandon other methods. What you’ve said is that the media coverage is overwhelming - but what about the watching? And even then, so what if people watch? How many of them believe what they hear or are impacted by what they see? Isn’t that part of what blogs work to balance, to say we can be our own filters - but that means we need access to the raw sources.

2. Again - entertaining or not - I didn’t look at it that way. I watch so little television to start. Learn what we didn’t know? Eh - I’ll give you a draw on that only because I didn’t watch the whole thing and honestly, I barely listen to the content. Why don’t I listen to the content? Because you and I both know that we have far better sources and antennae than most people watching that debate - so what we think the candidates think comes from other sources.

]]> by: Wendell http://wendellrobinson.com/wenBLOG/2007/07/31/politics-as-entertainment/#comment-3522 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:40:31 +0000 http://wendellrobinson.com/wenBLOG/2007/07/31/politics-as-entertainment/#comment-3522 Jill - How can you say that "people have so few chances to see any of these candidates in any forum?" The level of scrutiny and media coverage is so overwhelming that it's hard not to see them. I find it hard to fathom that there was anything new learned at the D's CNN/YouTube CPC that voters didn't already know. Having said that, I did find the questions entertaining, and as I said in the post, maybe that's what the real value was. Jill -
How can you say that “people have so few chances to see any of these candidates in any forum?” The level of scrutiny and media coverage is so overwhelming that it’s hard not to see them.
I find it hard to fathom that there was anything new learned at the D’s CNN/YouTube CPC that voters didn’t already know. Having said that, I did find the questions entertaining, and as I said in the post, maybe that’s what the real value was.

]]> by: Jill http://wendellrobinson.com/wenBLOG/2007/07/31/politics-as-entertainment/#comment-3520 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:27:05 +0000 http://wendellrobinson.com/wenBLOG/2007/07/31/politics-as-entertainment/#comment-3520 I disagree, Wendell. Nothing more to it. That people found it entertaining, that's a pejorative thing. I found the majority of questions to be good and I'm not necessarily even interested in the precise content of the answers - what they're doing is presenting themselves to us. People have so few chances to see these candidates in any forum - no matter how they fly around or how many MTBs we do. There are still more than 100million people who can vote - what proportion of those voters ever sees or meets or talks with a candidate? I have no problem with what it was and is and I stand my opinion about the GOP side. I disagree, Wendell. Nothing more to it. That people found it entertaining, that’s a pejorative thing. I found the majority of questions to be good and I’m not necessarily even interested in the precise content of the answers - what they’re doing is presenting themselves to us. People have so few chances to see these candidates in any forum - no matter how they fly around or how many MTBs we do. There are still more than 100million people who can vote - what proportion of those voters ever sees or meets or talks with a candidate?

I have no problem with what it was and is and I stand my opinion about the GOP side.

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