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Coverage of Google/YouTube Presidential Forum
2nd chance for debate in N.O. fizzles: Shorter presidential campaign makes online forum unlikely (Times-Picayune, August 4) WASHINGTON -- A proposed YouTube-Google presidential debate in New Orleans next month appears unlikely now. In accepting the four official Presidential Debate Commission scheduled debates -- one of which would be for the vice presidential nominees -- the Barack Obama campaign said late Saturday there probably isn't enough time for any additional debates. Read more »
Editorial: Make Time for Forum (The Times-Picayune, August 5)
The value of holding a YouTube/Google presidential debate in New Orleans should be obvious to both candidates seeking the nation's highest office.The proposed Internet-based forum is an ideal way to reach younger voters. And this city provides the perfect setting for a discussion of critical issues like emergency response, the environment and healthcare and education. Read more »
Letters to the Editor: Community united in presidential debate bid (The Times-Picayune, August 10)
From Anne Milling, Founder, Women of the Storm:
The Women of the Storm share the community's deep disappointment that New Orleans will not host a presidential debate. After the official Commission's rejection last November, our consortium then proposed a visionary, virtual platform partnering with Google/YouTube. We believe our city is the perfect venue for both candidates to discuss critical issues such as emergency preparedness, disaster relief, infrastructure stability and coastal erosion. This domestic agenda resonates with all Americans as well as New Orleanians. Read more »
EDITORIAL: No better place to debate (The Times-Picayune, June 3) Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, is scheduled to attend a campaign rally in Kenner tonight. He should seize the opportunity to deliver a crowd pleaser by committing to participate in New Orleans' presidential forum this summer. Read More »
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"Boot Up for the Big Easy" (New York Times Editorial, May 1) The bipartisan group of bigwigs who choose the sites for presidential debates made the wrong choice when they rejected New Orleans’ bid. Now Google and YouTube are hoping to hold a forum, with questions zapped in over the Internet, and the sparring candidates seated proudly in New Orleans. Read More »
"Lincoln-Douglas.com" (New York Observer, May 6, Felix Gillette) Google, YouTube and the city of New Orleans try to make an end run around debate commission, TV networks to host their own presidential forum. Read More »
"N.O. Aims To Hook Presidential Nominees With Online Forum" (AP, Apr 29): "Spurned by the commission that selects sites for presidential debates, New Orleans is going into cyberspace to hold its own forum after this summer's Democrat and Republican conventions. State officials plan to host the forum in September using Google and YouTube technology, and turn the city into a window onto national issues and opportunities." Read More »
"New Orleans to Hold Online Presidential Forum in September" (Fox News, Apr 29): "Spurned by the commission that selects sites for presidential debates, New Orleans is going into cyberspace to hold its own forum after this summer's Democrat and Republican conventions. State officials plan to host the forum in September using Google and YouTube technology, and turn the city into a window onto national issues and opportunities."
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"YouTube-Google Presidential Forum in New Orleans Announced" (Huffington Post, Apr 29): "Google and YouTube on Monday announced plans for a general election presidential forum this September in New Orleans, Louisiana. 'The forum will be a live televised discussion about the issues critical to America's future, and using YouTube's video platform and Google 's technologies, you'll be able to engage in the discussion in important ways,' the announcement reads."
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"Is This the Google/YouTube Election?" (Media Bistro, Apr 29): "The New Orleans Consortium announced today it is hosting a presidential forum on Thursday, Sept. 18 at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. In a press release, the group announced it will 'use Google technology and the YouTube video platform to drive citizen engagement and to create a dynamic, compelling, and constructive live television broadcast.' TVNewser has learned Google will be looking for a broadcast or cable news partner for the event."
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"Is This the Google/YouTube Election?" (MSNBC, Apr 29): "Snubbed by the official Commission on Presidential Debates, the city of New Orleans is taking steps to put itself at the center of a non-traditional presidential forum. On Tuesday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin detailed a partnership with the online video site YouTube.com and the world's leading search engine, Google."
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"Louisiana Leaders, Google, and YouTube Unite to Call for New Orleans Debate" (Politico, Apr 29): "Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and others in the city have joined forces with new media giants Google and YouTube to push for a presidential debate in New Orleans this fall. "The official Commission on Presidential Debates did not include the hurricane-ravaged city on the final list of debate venues, but later today a new coalition will announce plans to put on a forum on September 18th anyways -- effectively daring the candidates not to come to a city still in need of aid."
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"New Orleans Plans YouTube Presidential Debate" (Reuters, Apr 29): "New Orleans hopes to hold a U.S. presidential campaign town meeting in September, and while the candidates have yet to agree, the debate has already been announced on YouTube. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and other community leaders said the forum, planned for September 18, will use Google's technology and the YouTube's Web-based video platform as a means of incorporating American voices into the discussion. Google owns YouTube."
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"Slabbed Congratulates Women of the Storm and NOLA Universities on Scoring a Presidential Debate" (Slabbed, Apr 29): "I received the email blast from WWL-AM late this morning that Women of the Storm announced New Orleans would be holding the first presidential debate this year. Congratulations ladies and God Bless your work and mission. Here are some excerpts from the breaking story courtesy of our friends at the Times Picayune..."
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"YouTube-Google Announce Presidential Forum" (Tech President/Tech Republican, Apr 29): "Today, one of the Republican Party's fastest rising stars, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal , joined New Orleans Democratic Mayor Ray Nagin to announce that they are working with YouTube and Google to 'bring American voices into a forum with Presidential nominees.' Along with the New Orleans Consortium, Jindal and Nagin plan to host the forum on September 18, 2008 at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans."
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"Google, YouTube Team Up To Bring Presidential Forum to NO" (Times Picayune, Apr 29): "Internet giants Google and YouTube announced plans today for a major post-convention presidential forum in New Orleans, a move that could provide a national boost for the city after it was spurned last year by the Commission on Presidential Debates. Google, the dominant Web search engine, and YouTube, the online video platform, are proposing the forum with the major party presidential candidates be held Sept. 18 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, just after the parties complete their conventions in late August and early September."
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"New Orleans: Calling All Nominees" (Tribune- The Swamp blog, Apr 29): "Women of the Storm, an alliance of Hurricane Katrina survivors who joined with universities in New Orleans in a bid to secure one of the official presidential debates this fall, has struck out on its own -- well, with some powerful partners, actually: YouTube and Google -- to host a New Orleans Forum this fall. The presidential nominees are invited."
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"New Orleans to Host Google/YouTube Presidential Forum" (WWL Radio, Apr 29): "The group Women of the Storm today announced that New Orleans will hold a presidential debate. Google and YouTube will host the debate between the Democrat and Republican nominees on September 18th. Group founder Anne Milling calls it a 'very exciting end run.' After the debate commission rejected New Orleans she says, 'We went to Google/YouTube in January of this year very quietly below the radar screen.'"
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"New Orleans To Host Presidential Debate" (WWLTV, Apr 29): "Eyewitness News has learned that internet giants Google and YouTube, along with several local groups and elected leaders, will announce that a presidential forum is set to come to the Crescent City this September."
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"New Orleans Courts Online Presidential Debate" (WDSU, Apr 29): "Snubbed by the official Commission on Presidential Debates, the city of New Orleans is taking steps to put itself at the center of a non-traditional presidential forum.On Tuesday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin detailed a partnership with the online video site YouTube.com and the world's leading search engine, Google."
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