Boston Globe Loses New Media War - Boston.com 0, ABC News 260, TPM 63
The Boston Globe writes about the new John McCain online video contest, The media is in LOVE with Barack, and DOES NOT LINK to the contest, and DOES NOT EMBED the videos. ABC News links to the contest and embeds one video, Talking Points Memo (TPM) links to the contest and embeds both videos.
NO COMMENT
The Globe doesn't allow comments either. The others do. ABC news wins that contest with 263 people commenting on the article, as of this posting.
The Boston Globe continues to disappoint.
Here are the YouTube videos. Easy enough to embed.
Video 1 - Obama Love
Video 2 - Obama Love V2
Take a closer look.
Boston.com - McCain camp says media love Obama
NO LINKS to the contest
NO VIDEO EMBEDS
NO Comments ALLOWED
Article:
www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/07/23/mccain_cam...
ABC NEWS - McCain Campaign Mocks Media Relationship With Obama
ONE Video Embed
LINK to the contest
LINK to NYTIMES article
LINK to ABC News Blog
(263) comments
Article:
blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/07/mccain-campai-1....
TALKING POINTS MEMO (TPM) - McCain Campaign Targets Media "Love" For Obama In New Videos
LINKS to the Contest
EMBEDS BOTH Videos
(63) comments
Article:
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/mccain_c...
Globe TPM, yes, ABC, not so much
Interesting post Steve. I must say, I read the Globe and TPM far more that ABC news, then only if someone links to it. The other two are on my newsreader.
Did you get my email, with the question about your previous post, Fox 25 News at 10: A monkey, 3 inches of meat, a dog, a nude guy, and tomatoes are back!
I already replied via email yesterday
Hi Neil,
I replied yesterdAY AT 6:33 PM. Check your email.
--Steve
Interesting choice
Former McCain guy in 1999 (first time I could vote)
Former Hillary guy in the primaries
Current Obama guy
While I am currently pushing for Obama and doing some volunteer work where it counts (NH of course) I agree that the media was/is/will be biased towards Obama. He gets more coverage, and his substantial mistakes are brushed over while his silly mistakes are the ones they pay attention to (remember logogate with the faux seal?)
Im not convinced that this video is a good idea by the McCain camp simply because it doesnt tell me why I should like McCain. It also shows Obama in only a positive light and just lampoons the media. So theres a video showing Obama in a positive light, the media in a negative light, and no signs of McCain on the McCain site? Seems like a waste of bandwith to me, they should have went straight to youtube with it.
Obama is looking good
I agree. Why would McCain edit together all the positive clips Obama is getting in the press, promote it, and have a contest around it.
Not sure it's a good idea for the McCain campaign.
A fine line
There is a very fine line here between "Hey! That really is not fair" and "wahhhhhhh wahhhhh".
I'm not certain if McCain has crossed that line, but he crosses that line at his peril.
mccain's commander in cheif props crash and burn
McCain has crossed the line and I'll explain.
McCain is trying to argue that Obama was wrong on the surge and he can make his case.
But the more important judgment is that Obama was right on the war and McCain was wrong on the war. So McCain argues about the judgment he made correctly and Obama made "wrongly" and tries to maintain his advantage on who is better prepared to lead the country in foreign policy and commander-in-chiefery (short for, who can protect us.)
Finally but most devastatingly, Obama argues combat troops out of Iraq in 16 months, and McCain says 'conditions on the ground' which shapes up as a difference that makes MCain look great and Obama look impulsive and unreasoned. McCain thinks he's got Obama dead to rights on this and hammers it home...
But then Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister of soveriegn Iraq, say US combat troops must stand down by the end of 2010 and he also says Obama's 16 month plan lines up just about right with his own. McCain, like a fart in the wind, loses his commander-in-chief advantage, his only advantage (in national polling.)
That is why McCain is arguing these process issues; the media is unfair bla bla bla wa wa wa. It's the squeaky wheel, victim, and distraction tactic rolled into one. Plus see how cool he is, he's using the internet. It's a campaigning trouble but that doesn't mean he's out of it. There's plenty of time for things to change dramatically. Obama is punching holes in his commander-in-chief superiority but its not clear yet whether that will translate to a change in the polls. Public opinion is what counts in elections.
What it sounds like
A bunch of jocks screaming "those art club fags f*cked our girlfriends".
Never mind that the jocks ignored their girlfriends and expected adoration nonetheless, or that the art club guys cultivated their attention and were better lovers ...
You have
a way with words that makes me laugh aloud. Great metaphor.
Does this whining make me look old?
The great part about McCain being an angry old man who doesn't know how to do a googlie is how inept his campaign looks when it tries to do something online.
This is the best they can do? A competition between two identical, campaign-produced canned clip collections with no difference except the cheesy song in the soundtrack?
It's like a choice between a leftover filet-o-fish sandwich and leftover filet-o-fish with two slices of cheese. Rock on, McSame!
See, if Obama's campaign were doing a contest, not only would they not have to do the work themselves - just announce it - but their supporters would produce something orders of magnitude better than this silliness. It could become a real contest, people would have something worth voting about, and then Grampy McSame would whine about how the Internet likes Obama better.
Trash McCain video contest?
It's been done, to brilliant and hilarious result.
Touche
Vogue.
Waaaa
The internets like Obama better! Waaaa!
Process issue
I'm sure this article, like most of their print articles, gets automatically pushed through to the website with very little manual oversight...so if there are no url's in the print version, they aren't adding them into the website version.
Bingo
That's the problem.
Umm. You're wrong. The video WAS embedded. Yesterday.
The Globe posted both videos yesterday, here.
I suspect the story in today's paper was written from this blog post and automatically processed with the rest of the paper. No URL's in the print version = no URLs in the online version.
I also suspect you knew the videos were on Boston.com already -- it was linked in at least one comment on Universal Hub yesterday -- a choose to ignore that fact, which makes one wonder about your motive for this post. Another Mindless Globe Hater, perhaps?
Seriously Newt?
Seriously Newt? You think Steve would go to all the trouble of putting the post together; and intentionally and falsely misrepresent what the Globe had posted because he "hates" the Globe?
I'm afraid so, Neil
That he hates the Globe is a given, based on his previous posts here and elsewhere. Did he knowingly misrepresent what happened in this case? Either that or he was very sloppy, failing even to read previous posts on the site to which he's contributing.
Personally, I don't think he particularly cared if he got it right. He saw a chance for a cheap shot, and he took it. It's hardly his his first when it comes to non-Internet media. In fact, he's pretty insufferable on the topic, and his analysis of media he does not understand continues to be shallow and to, well, disappoint.
You're kind to think otherwise.
yesterday's rich media article becoming today's flat article
When I worked for Boston.com, they called pulling web originated content into the paper "reverse publishing". (which really gives an idea of how they saw Boston.com relating to the paper. Having content originally publish on the web and then move to dead tree media seemed backwards.)
Since all the content published in the paper becomes a web article, that causes the article to be published twice, once the the boston.com blog ghetto, and then as a Globe article. A Globe article would tend not to have hyperlinks (because you can't click on paper.) or embedded video (because news because news print is too thin to make a decent flipbook.)
Unfortunately, since the second article is the "Boston Globe" article and the other one is just a blog posting, it tends to become the article with greater credibility, and will become the version that will be found more often. (The Globe article will show up in the Globe RSS feeds. It will show up in their site search if you click "globe articles only", etc.)
Wrong.
Newt,
I didn't know that the videos were posted on the Globe's Political Intelligence blog the other day.
Thanks for posting that.
I just read the paper version in the morning, went to the website and didn't see the videos or a link to the contest.
Your suspicions are false.
I didn't see a link to the videos in Universal Hub comments either.
My motives for this post are to point out that the Boston Globe continues to fail to add links to websites and videos in their articles, both online and in print, when the main topic of the article is a website or video.
It's not mindless, but actually mindful.
--Steve
Possible Alternate "Obama Love" Soundtrack
I swear, these lyric hacks just emerge and I can do nothing to stop them. So I inflict them.
Think Paul Simon's "Loves me like a rock" here ... a nice gospel style ... My mama, Obama, a rock, Barack, etc.
Not like that, like this
(Muskrat Love - Captain and Tenille)
Obama, Obama candlelight
Doin' the speech and doin' it right
In the evenin'
It's pretty pleasin'
Obama Chris, Obama Dan
Do the jitterbug out in Obama land
And they shimmy
And Barack’s so skinny
And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed
Singin' and jingin' the jango
Floatin' like the heavens above
It looks like Obama love
Nibbling on bacon, chewin' on cheese
Barack says to Katie "Honey, would you please be my missus?"
And she say yes
With her kisses
And now he's ticklin' her fancy
Rubbin' her toes
Muzzle to muzzle, now anything goes
As they wriggle, and Katie starts to giggle
And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed
Singin' and jingin' the jango
Floatin' like the heavens above
It looks like Obama love
La da da da da ...
Oh My!
The seventies sure produced a whole lot of fodder for this sort of editing ...