The Election Year That Was... On YouTube

摘要

If there isn't a photo of former Sen. George Allen(R-Va.) hanging somewhere in the offices of YouTube, there ought to be. After all, it was Allen whose use of the racial epithet "macaca" was caught on a video that simultaneously torpedoed his 2006 re-election bid and marked "the birth of YouTube politics"-as Steve Grove, head of news and politics for the video-sharing site, described it in an interview with B&C last June. And if YouTube was just an ingenue back in the 2006 election, the 2008 presidential campaign saw the Google-owned company become a full-fledged political player.