Politics and New Media
Recently, a video made last summer by a friend of mine named CT Bob ended up on CNN.
CNN on CTBob
Uploaded by CTBob
How the hell does this happen?
Well, Bob doesn’t really blog anonymously, and he’s a prolific political video creator. This explains why his original 1984/Lieberman ad didn’t get much play last summer. It was good, but compared to some of CT Bob’s other work, it just didn’t command that much attention (especially when you add in that videos by myself and by CTBlogger were also garnering attention).
The 1984/Clinton clip was put together in a very professional way. It was distributed anonymously. It was basically an attack ad targeted at one high profile Democrat that championed another high profile Democrat. The media seems to love this kind of crap, and when they learned that the 1984 mash-up concept for a political ad wasn’t original, I think they were a little shocked.
And so when traditional media catches up with people-powered media, my friend CT Bob (who’s IMDB listing can be found here, right next to my IMDB listing) gets a mention on CNN.
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