MySpace, MSNBC.com Set Citizen-Journalist Contest
MySpace and MSNBC.com are looking for citizen journalists to cover the political conventions this summer.
By Marisa Guthrie -- Broadcasting & Cable, 6/26/2008 7:03:00 AM
MySpace and MSNBC.com are looking for citizen journalists to cover the political conventions this summer.
The social-networking site is teaming up with MSNBC to recruit citizen journalists via a video contest that gives the winners a trip to the Democratic and Republican conventions and the opportunity to have their work seen on MSNBC.com and MySpace Impact, the site’s public-affairs destination.
Videos may be submitted to the MySpace Decision '08 page answering these three questions: Why do you vote? Why are you the best person for this job? How will you stand out in the crowd and get the scoop no one else can?
The judges will be Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist from NBC; Tom Anderson, president and cofounder of MySpace; and Lee Brenner, director of MySpace Impact and executive producer of political programming.
The winner will be selected by MySpace users. One winner will attend each convention. The deadline for entries is July 16.
The MySpace contest follows on the heels of a similar politically themed video contest at YouTube, which has teamed up with the GOP to identify citizens who give back to their communities through volunteer work, embodying presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain’s (Ariz.) ethos of serving “a cause greater than their own self-interest.”
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Do all of the people that disagree with the president
dislike him, no, no, no. We just disagree with his policies. I for one think he his a very nice gentleman.
However, when we do not agree on a policy we are called unpatriotic or a left leaning liberal.
CHUCK
CHARLES ARNOLD - 7/1/2008 2:34:00 PM EDT -
More proof that the media has abandoned its mission to educate and inform, in favor of online "infotainment" for the sheeple. God help this country.
Ceebee - 6/28/2008 11:02:00 PM EDT -
Perhaps Fox should do the same and then we could see a "Battle of the News Network Amateurs." Some might say the coverage of both nets is amateur hour, given the lack of depth and original, edgy reporting on both networks.
Adam Smith - 6/28/2008 2:45:00 AM EDT -
If MSNBC is sponsoring it, my guess is that the winner will be the one that shows the most hard core disrespect for President Bush, uses the most expletives, and worries the least about telling the truth. Message to MSNBC, we aren't all far left loons that hate the President, Christians, and Wal-Mart, but clearly you do not know that.
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