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  Michael White's politics briefing: Brown braves the online battle | Comment is free | The Guardian 

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/may/20/media.digitalmedia

  Gordon Brown's political fightback yesterday crossed new frontiers, at least for him. Dipping another tentative toe into the world of interactive politics, he launched Ask the PM, an online version of ... prime minister's question time hosted by YouTube. "Politicians get a chance to ask questions ... I think it's time the public had a chance," Brown explained on his YouTube clip. By teatime he had nearly 350,000 views and video questions were trickling in on solar electricity prices, drugs education, student fees and the Lisbon treaty. So far, so quite good. Questions were coming from young people, the kind of missing voters about whom politicians of all parties obsess. But Brown will not answer until June 21, by which time they may have moved on. But such exercises are always fraught with peril, dismissive mockery never far away. YouTube's clip of chancellor Brown picking his nose is twice as popular as his PM's debut last June. "Why aren't comments allowed on your site?" a sceptical 18-y   [More...] [Less...]

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  Tags:  gordon brown, online, prime minister, youtube