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Edwards’ missing 1:03

Published by Jeff Jarvis June 19th, 2007 Tags: .

ReelPolitik notices that the Edwards campaign has taken down the video I wrote about the other day showing the candidate asking his wife permission to go to a basketball game under the proudly snarky headline, ‘Will he ask for permission to invade Iran?‘ Click on the video now and it’s “private.” Ah, but there is no private in a presidential campaign. ReelPolitik asks: “Did Jarvis’ snark drive this video into privacy?” Well, if so, that’d be silly. The Edwards video was the first spark I saw of a candidate being just a little loose on the little camera. If someone in the campaign tries to sanitize, script, and spin that, they’re missing the point of the medium. Put the video back up. What’s the harm in looking human?

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  1. 1 Jeremy D. Thompson Jun 19th, 2007 at 12:27 pm

    Thanks for the link, Professor!

    I was just going to go with the appearing, then disappearing, then re-uploaded - twice - video describing the Edwards Demand and Be Heard contest on Eventful.com.

    As I was writing the post, I remembered the feed-reader pop-in of the “Important Phone Call” clip - a piece I rather enjoyed.

    And while I don’t find you to be all that scary, your comment RE: Iran was an example of the “Gotcha Culture” Joe Trippi has been taking to task in recent talks on candidate web videos. This morning’s “sneezing” clip is along the same lines.

    In a way, I feel lucky to have seen the “Phone Call” clip…perhaps that is a potential strategy for campaign video creators such as myself. Put things up for just a limited time. Make interesting enough that when they disappear people post about it on their blogs…hmmmm….

  1. 1 Reelpolitik.org Trackback on Jun 19th, 2007 at 12:35 pm

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