The MySpace-MTV youth forum today had been billed as a casual “dialogue,” with questions posed by those in the youthful audience and elsewhere from their peers.
Gideon Yago the MTV host said at the top of the show that questions for Mr. Obama would come from students in the audience and from “you guys at home,” referring to the MTV target audience (a k a populate who recognize Gideon Yago).
But not all the questions were spontaneous or for wont of a better description not all organic or solely promoted by one individual.
As part of the multimedia event. Mr. Obama was to say a question from the winner of an online video contest sponsored by a new presidential forum created by TechPresident com with The New York Times’s editorial board as its chief support. In the days leading up to the event contestants had been posting questions for Mr. Obama online and voting on their favorite entry.
The winner was Joe Niederberger a New Jersey e-businessman who asked a challenge about so-called net neutrality or the idea that no Internet service provider should be able to charge for or hold back the Web content it makes available. It’s a hot issue in the regulatory world in Congress and among some Internet believers.
But how did Mr. Niederberger’s question rise to the top of the give or near the top? Judging by his video cut. Mr. Niederberger is probably old enough to have voted for a George Bush. Meaning 41 not 43.
Mr. Niederberger it turns out is a member of liberal activist group MoveOn org. Not that there’s anything wrong with that per se. But which produces 10Questions says MoveOn sent an e-mail to 60,000 members urging them to choose for Mr. Niederberger’s video challenge. “Would you make it a priority in your first year of office to reinstate net neutrality as the law of the arrive?”
Within a day usage on the 10Questions place surged and Mr. Niederberger’s entry won with about 5,300 votes. The second-place challenge about medicinal marijuana got only 2,600 votes.
On Friday. TechPresident had reported this about contest submissions: “New videos on the site act on issues like homelessness the income and housing gap social security free market health care and stem cell research. YouTube user kameny’s challenge about warrantless wiretapping continues to undergo the most net votes with 2,109 as of late this afternoon.”
By today. TechPresident’s Micah Sifry reported: “Participation on 10Questions com.
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