Finding Political News Online, the Young Pass It On - New York Times

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28 Mar 08

Will Richardson
- But on the medium it was made for, the Internet, the video caught fire. Quickly after it was posted on YouTube, it appeared on the video-sharing site’s most popular list and Google’s most blogged list. It has been viewed more than 1.3 million times, been linked by more than 500 blogs and distributed widely on social networking sites like Facebook.
Tami Brass
According to interviews and recent surveys, younger voters tend to be not just consumers of news and current events but conduits as well — sending out e-mailed links and videos to friends and their social networks. And in turn, they rely on friends and

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Joe Wood
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27 Mar 08

Barbara Lindsey
Young voters not only consumers but conduits of news--bypassing 'traditional' media

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Britt Watwood
Example of "filter and publish" world.

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Steve Dickie
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- According to interviews and recent surveys, younger voters tend to be not just consumers of news and current events but conduits as well — sending out e-mailed links and videos to friends and their social networks. And in turn, they rely on friends and online connections for news to come to them. In essence, they are replacing the professional filter — reading The Washington Post, clicking on CNN.com — with a social one.
- “If the news is that important, it will find me.”
Steve Ransom
new culture of social filtering & dissemination of news...

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Jeff Nugent
Example of "filter and publish" world.

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Ryan Bretag
Rather than treating video-sharing Web sites as traditional news sources, young people use them as tools and act as editors themselves.

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susan carter morgan
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- Ms. Buckingham recalled conducting a focus group where one of her subjects, a college student, said, “If the news is that important, it will find me.”
David Warlick
Senator Barack Obama’s videotaped response to President Bush’s final State of the Union address — almost five minutes of Mr. Obama’s talking directly to the camera — elicited little attention from newspaper and television reporters in January.