According to the New York Times YouTube has teamed up with the US house and Senate and created a hub to connect people directly to congress and senate youtube channels.
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h/t @DavidAll
A quick search of Pennsylvania yields no senators on youtube and 4 congressmen.
YouTube.com/HouseHub
YouTube.com/SenateHub
Here is the latest video from the token republican…
Congressman Bill Shuster (R) 9th District YouTube – Website
Talking about gas prices in June of 2008
Democrats in PA with youtube channels are
Congressman Jason Altmire (last video from 2007)
congresswoman Allyson Schwartz (last video from 2007)
Congressman Mike Doyle (last video from July 2008 Updated)
Give YouTube a piece of shoo-fly pie! The more people get to see what their elected officials do the better. Now if we can just get our house and senate to post up more video.
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I noticed you mentioned Congressman Doyle’s latest video was from 2007. Not correct. At least two are from 2008….
thanks for the clarification Matt, I had just looked at the main video (usually the latest but not in this case).
ps It’s good to know that Congressmen Doyle is spending time correcting talk radio shock jocks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWkVIdvDze4&feature=channel_page
If it’s talk radio, they aren’t really jocks, are they?
Unless you’re playing music, you don’t have 45s and LPs to jockey around.
Shock jock is a slang term used to describe a type of radio broadcaster (sometimes a disc jockey) who attracts attention using humor that a significant portion of the listening audience may find offensive. The term is usually used pejoratively to describe provocative or irreverent broadcasters whose manners and on air behavior is offensive to the listener.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_jock
Wikipedia does not consider even its best articles to be reliable sources, and that particular article doesn’t meet Wikipedia standards. Nor, if you read the comments for that article, do the wikipedia editors agree.
Wikipedia’s own dictionary, moreover, specifies that shock jock is a type of disk jockey.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shock_jock
The dead-tree Random House and American Heritage dictionaries concur with that definition.
Even without the music, there’s a big difference. Talk radio hosts want listeners to trust and believe them, and to be outraged at other people, such as those who say such “Happy Holidays”, instead of “Merry Christmas”, as if “holidays” weren’t “holy days”. Shock jocks want listeners to be startled and/or outraged at the DJ’s own behavior.
Michael Savage wasn’t looking to offend his listeners when he called autistic kids brats. Rather, he was hoping his listeners would agree with him.
There may not be a lot of US congressmen on YouTube, but there are several PA Representatives. A few that I’ve found are Mike Turzai and Scott Perry. YouTube is a way to connect to younger voters, and I hope that campaigns and politicians realize it’s just another tool to help them along the way.