Youtube, the videosharing website, shows the language discrepancies of politicians. The newspaper NYT to the title "The YouTube Election" questions whether this "democratisation" is actually helping to serve politics. What you think?
To the NYT, "August, usually the sleepiest month in politics, has suddenly become raucous, thanks in part to YouTube, the vast videosharing Web site".
Recently, Senator George Allen, a Virginia Republican candidate, was caught on tape at a campaign event twice calling a college student of Indian descent, attending the meeting, a “macaca,” which is an obscure racial insult. The Senator even went on to add "welcome to America, to Virginia, to the real world". The student, born and raised in Allen's state, working for the opposing campaign, taped the comments, and the video quickly made it to YouTube, where it rocketed to the top of the site’s most-viewed list. It then escaped from the Web to the front page of The Washington Post and to cable and network television news shows, such as the ABC news. As reported by the NYT, "despite two public apologies by Senator Allen, and his aides', quick explanations for how the strange word tumbled out, political analysts rushed to downgrade Mr. Allen’s stock as a leading contender for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination."
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