Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Future to the back

NPR:
So if Howard Dean with his millions of small donors was Orville Wright, and Obama with his wired grass-roots army was Neil Armstrong, what will be next?

That's easy: Fredericka the Australopithecine Televisionator:

Sara Taylor, the former political director of the Bush White House, has one idea.

"We're at a place in the country where almost everybody has a cell phone, but not many people have a smartphone, meaning a video-enabled phone. But that will change over the next three to four or five years," Taylor says.

She envisions a campaign in which "they'll be able to serve you advertising via a text message that links right to video with your candidate speaking in a beautiful video" about certain issues.

Mara Liasson gave this a pass, saying "it's just technology." Let's review what we've learned: the entire Net is merely a grunt at the service of ideological power.

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4 Comments:

Blogger Juke said...

Do you have a link for this Fredericka as she sounds like someone I would want to know more about esp. photos etc.

11/13/2008 1:46 PM  
Blogger Tom Matrullo said...

I think she's running fan clubs for dead celebrities - dinah shore, sandy dennis - is she dead? dunno - best bet: googleit

11/13/2008 7:52 PM  
Blogger jonhusband said...

Cynical, much ?

For an attempt at a play on words in my not-maternal language ... "une polarité: il y a des bons et des cons"

11/14/2008 8:50 AM  
Blogger Tom Matrullo said...

et les poupons...

11/14/2008 11:59 AM  

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