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Supporter Launches Ron Paul YouTube Video Contest With Money Prize

September 25th, 2007
By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief


OK … perhaps the prize isn’t as whopping as America’s Got Talent’s or American Idol’s. But a Ron Paul supporter is insisting that he’s launching a Ron Paul video contest on YouTube with the top prize $4,000.

Yes, friends, this is indeed the Age Of You Tube. First, you had weblogs where any citizen could be his/her/it’s own editor, publisher at a shockingly low cost. The result: between Internet websites, Internet advertising and young people reading more weblogs than old fogey-ish newspapers (which often have “blogs” that are to real “blogs” what William Shatner singing The Beatles was to The Beatles) the newspaper industry is in cutback mode.

And now news media democratization spreads even further to political campaigns. Not only can blogs (in many cases) be mouthpieces and gathering places for partisans, but now YouTube visitors can actually help CREATE an ad for Ron Paul — and win money for their creativity. How much influence an an Internet ad have? Maybe not a ton but it’s training a whole new generation of Americans who could have greater influence as the new media grows and expands in influence and audience share.

Of course, there are spoofs about Ron Paul. But Paul and his supporters are dead serious: he’s even doing a major Internet fund-raising drive. According to The Hill, supporters are responding in kind now…via Paypal.

But can Paul overcome the “conventional wisdom” which quickly type-casts candidates (and, if they win at the polls, throws out the old conventional wisdom and acts as if it was never there before — in a way similar to the Bush administration’s musical-chairs-like justifications for the Iraq war)?

No matter….now The YouTube Age is upon partisans who can actually create a campaign ad (which they know is not totally news) and get prizes for it. Here’s the YouTube announcing the contest:


NOTE: YouTube is doing maintenance and the video has vanished. We will restore it when YouTube comes back up.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 at 8:13 pm and is filed under Internet, You Tube, Ron Paul, Videos, 2008 Elections, Media, Politics. Both comments and pings are currently closed.


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