Did a college sophomore potentially launch Sarah Palin into the vice presidency? Read it.
What’s the best video camera one can buy? I’ve always wanted to shoot video (and had plenty of opportunity), but I have no idea which camera to buy!
My budget is around $400. I use an Apple Computer with basic iMovie editing.
Anyone know of a good camera and can use and then put the footage on my computer??
The Senate will return to SCHIP today. This version of the bill was quickly pushed through the House, though it offers little improvement over the previous version of the bill.
The Democrats needed to swing 13 Republicans in the House to override the promised presidential veto, but only one Republican changed his vote. This is a result of the Democrats failure to include Republicans in any meaningful way in recrafting the bill. Instead of including Republicans, Democrats ran attack ads agasint Republicans in their districts. Its not hard to understand why Republicans, in addition to good policy reasons, had dug in on this issue.
The sequence of events encompassing SCHIP dmonstrates the Democrats’ mismanagement of Congress. They spent months crafting the first bill which they knew the president would veto.
Once that veto occurred, instead of trying to work out a compromise with the White House and Congressional Republicans, Democrats spent two weeks running ads against Republicans before even holding a vote to override the veto.
Democrats then put together a hasty revision and are now trying to move it through the Senate, even though President Bush has said he will veto it and the House doesn’t have the votes to override.
The Democrats are really starting to scare me with this $3.5 billion tax increase…
The Democrats are scaring Republicans in D.C. too…
Hence the below spoof…
Democrats are primarily talking about negatives, not positives. They have criticized Iran, they have criticized Iraq, they have criticized the system, they have criticized each other’s experience or lack of experience. There has only been limited discussion about the vision and world view that Democrats would offer in the White House.
- Julian E. Zelizer, a history professor at Princeton University, said of the infighting at the latest Democratic Presidential debate in Philadelphia and how such infighting could hurt the field as a whole
I am not expert on political media. However, upon reviewing how the Maryland College Republicans employed YouTube, I have one generally applicable suggestion for future use by College Republicans everywhere.
Always be cognizant of the elements the professional media would include in a story. Keeping in mind how the professional media would prevent a story will increase the impact your media will have. There is a reason the pro-media does things the way it does.
Take for example the Maryland CR protests. The footage to good but it is lacking, and I couldn’t help but feel that as I was watching. What is missing is an interview of a member participating in the story explaining the rationale behind their participation. The professional media would have gotten an interview.
Along this same line of thinking – getting interviews from members on one side of the story – the professional media would have gotten not only the college student perspective on tape, but also the perspective of the 30 year old accountant, the 67 year old retiree, and the 45 year old dad with three kids. This tatic widens the appeal of the story and thus increases its impact – which is the goal of utilizing media right: influencing as wide an audience as possible with your message.
Another thing I think the professional media would have done that the Maryland CRs failed to do is to gather the perspective from the other side. This is key for College Republicans, because unlike the professional media we won’t play fair or pretend to play fair for our audience.
What the professional media would do would be to gather the other side of the story in much the same way that they gathered your side. That is to pick out a reasonably intelligent looking person to go on camera and speak as to their participation or perspective. If this is how I thought College Republicans should do it, I would not suggest it because it only detracts from our message.
Instead, what you do is try to find the dumbest looking fellow to go on camera. This completes the zero-sum effect you want on every story possible: to make the other side look as negative as possible while making your side look as positive as possible.
In the Maryland CRs case, the union workers would have been a prime target.
Remember back to the Max Blumenthal video documentary on the CRNC convention (see below video) when he went around asking students about Iraq. Remember how dumb we looked. This is what you want to capture, while in the same video capturing the brilliance of your side.
Let me know what y’ll think.
