Youtube Debate Scale Limits
Ed Morrissey says the solution to fix the obsolete nature of the Youtube debates is:
CNN would ask bloggers to form a committee to review the YouTube entries. Since this debate is a Republican primary event, the bloggers should probably represent that segment of the electorate — primarily Republicans, but perhaps with independent/centrist representation as well. The committee would review all of the YouTube entries and narrow them down to around 20, through whatever process and criteria to which these bloggers agree. They would also agree to the order in which the questions would be asked.
But this is more of the e-press conference approach. You could do it Digg style but the argument against that centers on there’s just too many people involved.
The elephant in the room is: if Youtube has too many users to pick questions for candidates, then the country probably has too many people to pick candidates.
-Shlok
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