One of the wonderful benefits of YouTube is that elected officials and pundits alike can be held to account for their previous comments. Rarely do you see a better demonstration than this video: a YouTube video featuring financial commentator Peter Schiff’s warnings about the impending economic crisis with fellow pundits ridiculing him (found via Paul Kedrosky’s blog Infectious Greed).
Here are some of the best post-election wrap-ups and analysis from a communications point-of-view.
U.S. commentators are concluding that this year’s presidential election campaign has marked a turning point in the use of online vehicles. According to the New York Times:
Not since 1960, when John F. Kennedy won in part because of the increasingly popular medium of television, has changing technology had such an impact on the political campaigns and the organizations covering them.
For the speechwriters among us, the New York Times helpfully offers a web site dissecting the basic stump speeches of Obama and McCain.
On a related note, James Surowiecki concludes that McCain’s speeches were hampered by his use of “inside-the-beltway shorthand.”
One of the reasons John McCain isn’t especially successful as a debater, or as a speechmaker, is that he often discusses issues by using inside-the-Beltway shorthand, a shorthand that’s completely baffling to anyone who doesn’t already know what he’s talking about—which is say, completely baffling to almost all American voters.
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