According to the NY Times the G.O.P. is leveraging social media to attack Senator Barack Obama:
The Republican National Committee has rolled out a new Web site, “CanWeAsk.com” that takes on Senator Barack Obama as though he were already the Democratic nominee. The site, using a new Web video, is soliciting viewers’ questions, in text and video formats, to ask of Senator Obama.
The fact that the Republican National Committee is utilizing social-media is a telling indicator that “The Next Social Revolution” has no borders. Social-media has become so embedded within our societies that even the G.O.P. is in on the action. In the humble opinion of this blogger “CanWeAsk.com” is not really social as it is more a “media” outlet. From this perspective, CanWeAsk.com is a propaganda pipeline on the “interwebs” which does not encourage collaboration nor cooperation.
According to the NY Times the G.O.P. is leveraging social media to attack Senator Barack Obama:
The Republican National Committee has rolled out a new Web site, “CanWeAsk.com” that takes on Senator Barack Obama as though he were already the Democratic nominee. The site, using a new Web video, is soliciting viewers’ questions, in text [...]
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@ 08:46
Might you extend your analytic conclusion that such a web proposition is “media”, to hanging the NYT article itself out to dry? That is, how is asking publically generated, web-based questions of an opposing candidate construed as an “attack”? After all, doesn’t Bill Gates use the internet and his connecting software as a vast laboratory to shakeout his profuse defects? I’ve always viewed that as an attack on me directly, due not to Microsoft’s [near automatic] requests for error reporting, as per the Republican Party here, but for the profuse amount of reports that error mechanism demands as a result of inherently shabby software. Your humility notwithstanding, I find a bias in your conclusion; indeed, one worthy of the Times itself, for publishing insinuation as news.