Press conference with the people
I got to see only the end of Hillary Clinton’s first web conversation but what struck me immediately was that she was having a press conference with the people: We get to ask the questions. Oh, of course, it’s controlled; they get to pick the questions. But I still like that her campaign is a conversation.
Tags: hillary, smalltv, youtubecampaign
January 22nd, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Too bad her answers were all political pablum. Remember the definition from the New Republic: A gaff is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.
Campaigns are all about not turning off marginal voters. Those who support the candidate are willing to overlook minor (and sometimes major) policy disagreements. So the goal is to offend no one. The result is pablum.
January 22nd, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Hiliary wasn’t having a press conference. First, press conferences as the name implies include the press. Second, press conferences usually center around an announcement. Finally, press conferences are rarely if ever controlled.
Describing this as a press conference is inaccurate.
Steven Blinn
BlinnPR
http://www.blinnpr.com
January 23rd, 2007 at 1:35 pm
I suppose that is a step towards increasing more popularity between the citizens.
January 23rd, 2007 at 4:44 pm
I’m wary of politicians who are eager to have “conversations” with disembodied constituencies. And when they start using “dialogue” as a verb my gorge rises. Why would anyone be excited by this language?
January 24th, 2007 at 1:08 am
The press, the “fourth branch,” almost certainly represents the people better than those questions Hillary selects (and, incidentally, better any of the other three branches) — nless one is a postmodernist who believes the press creates, not reflects, public opinion, but let’s not go there.