CNN and YouTube Bring Debates to E-Masses

June 15th, 2007

As a testament to the mainstreaming of Web 2.0 technologies, CNN is hosting two 2008 presidential debates with YouTube. In a move that recalls the Nixon-Kennedy debate of the 1960s, the first to be broadcast on television, the live forum will feature video questions, submitted to YouTube, that will be broadcast and answered by the presidential candidates on CNN. CNN’s Anderson Cooper will moderate the two-hour debates and pose follow-up questions.Specifically, CNN and YouTube will partner on the Democratic debate to be held at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina on July 23. The Republican Party will get its turn at a Florida debate on September 17. CNN will produce the televised events and will choose the questions used in the debates. Selected YouTube users will be among those in the live audience. YouTube is already calling for users to submit their questions at its site.

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