YouTube has been a major source of video
media since its launch in late 2005. With millions of videos uploaded to the
website and with hundreds uploaded every day, YouTube can serve as a rich
resource of information, laughs and scholarship via video format! With this
wealth of information, YouTube is a great website to view politics. With the
contentious campaign season behind us now, I am still able to reminisce about my
hero and also access amazing video footage of Ron Paul thanks to YouTube!
The YouTube video “Ron Paul 2012:
Why the media ignores Ron Paul” is an amazing video that depicts the media
corporations as biased and unwilling to give Ron Paul fair air time. This is
quite evident in both the 2008 and 2012 election seasons. Tuning into the media
channels such as CNN, Fox News and MSNBC the average viewer wouldn't find much
information about Ron Paul thanks to the little coverage. However, on YouTube there
are numerous videos from Ron Paul interviews, documentary style videos,
political debates and also any other information such as coverage of the 2012
Paul Fest.
YouTube has opened many doors and
also helped educate people on different political figures through uploaded
presidential debates, presidential advertisements and all other sorts of
videos. YouTube is a great website to catch up on current issues if you do not
have a TiVo account and also a way for users to view videos from decades ago
(before most of us were even born)! This revolutionary website has truly been a
beacon of knowledge and power for the 21st century and I’m sure it
will continue to inform the public even when the main stream media fails.
Works Cited
"Ron Paul 2012: Why the media ignores Ron Paul." Video Clip. 19 August, 2011. YouTube. 13 November 2012.
For this past election I didn't have cable for half of the coverage so I relied heavily on the internet. YouTube was my favorite way to watch debates and speeches just because everything was so easy to find. I definitely like how they show a variety of things too such as the speeches and coverage from Ron Paul.
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