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...They say all politics is local," Fox says in the ad. "But that's not always the case." Not anymore. Once politics goes viral, there's no cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Complex: When Politics Goes Viral | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...that attention not only made the Fox ad the most-watched video on YouTube last week but also raised the viral-video site's political profile. For all the hype over "The YouTube Election" (as the New York Times dubbed it), Web video has not proved to be a persuasion tool. It is an opt-in medium: you have to seek out videos or click on an e-mail link, whereas TV ads crawl through your cable line and hunt you down. In the partisan world of political websites, there are few undecideds; we are not exactly a society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Complex: When Politics Goes Viral | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...scuffle shows YouTube's potential to preach to the unconverted. About 2 million people watched the Fox ad on YouTube last week, and more than 600,000 the rebuttal. That pales before a TV audience--until you realize that this means some 2 million people are watching political ads on purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Complex: When Politics Goes Viral | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...other words, the controversy took a local race and--through YouTube's free distribution--nationalized it. The Democrats, whose holy grail has been to nationalize the midterms, owe Limbaugh a fruit basket. (The flap probably had less effect in Missouri, where the ads would have got notice anyway.) True, Rush's side got exposure too, but on a national level the Fox video seems more effective. It discusses the issue in emotional terms that people in any state can understand (whether or not they agree). The response ad begins, bafflingly, with Caviezel speaking in untranslated Aramaic, the historical language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Complex: When Politics Goes Viral | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...Professor Frank E. A. Sander, who was chairman of HLS ad-board in 1985, declined to comment on the protest...

Author: By Alexandra Hiatt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Former Student Activists Turn Political | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

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