Obama's Transparent Presidency: Weekly YouTube Addresses

[Undercurrent]

President-elect Obama's office gave the media a new way to present him as Franklin Roosevelt 2.0 by announcing Friday that it will be posting weekly addresses - fireside chats for the web generation - on YouTube.

The first address will appear on Change.gov this Saturday, after it airs in audio. An Obama spokesperson says that this innovation is just the beginning of the digital, transparent presidency.

The plan appears to be in the mold of what the campaign did with videos like "Four Days in Denver" and Campaign Manager David Plouffe's conversations on the state of the race. These videos allowed supporters to feel like they had a direct connection to the campaign, a connection that bypassed the media. Already, the Obama team has made good on the post-election plan. It posted a video from Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama's transition chairs, discussing plans for the new administration. Watch it here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/14/obamas-transparent-presid_n_143805.html

[LisaM]

1. How do people who don't have computers at home get these?

Which would be us.

[ghurley]

2. the same way people without radios in the past listened...

with a public one... at least with a youtube video, you don't have to watch it live.

[Ashy Larry]

3. You could go to your local library.

I would also think that C-SPAN and cable news might play them.

[LisaM]

4. C-Span should play them. That would be a good alternative.

I don't know if a library would really condone a bunch of people going to listen to YouTube in the library. Not to mention the lines.

[Skidmore]

5. These addresses should be broadcast on several media

to as wide an audience as possible.

[JimWis]

6. This is going to be so great. A transparent president with weekly

presentations. So refreshingly different then what we have had in the past. I can't wait for this term to begin. Thanks for posting this info. Just watching the video, especially about lobbying, just - cool.

[FrenchieCat]

7. Hence, Barack's push of the laying of broadband throughout the land......