Your President, Your Questions
Oliver Willis — President Obama will be answering user-submitted questions on the White House web site this Thursday.

Obama Hangs "Open for Questions" Sign on the White House
techPresident — ... "[W]e're going to try something a little different," says President Obama in a new video released tonight. "We're going to take advantage of the Internet to bring all of you to the White House to talk about the economy." And with that, the new administration inaugurated the West Wing edition of Open for Questions, the experiment in giving citizens a direct line to the Oval Office that the transition team first ran during the Change.gov days. ...

White House 'Open for Questions'
Ben Smith's Blog — ... The White House today put up its own Digg-style "Open for Questions" page, something they debuted during the transition, but have been able to pull off on government servers and with government rules. ...

Barry O Throws MSM (and Teleprompter) Under The Bus
JammieWearingFool — ... Barry O the President in Training Pants is going to be taking questions submitted via the web on Thursday. I guess all those teleprompter gaffes and a media that seems to be turning are just too much for him. I am not foolish enough to think that he will field any questions from conservatives. He will no doubt pick and choose and of course questions submitted from Huffington Post and Firedoglake type progressives will get priority but it might be entertaining to see how he does and what he chooses to answers. The poor teleprompter in chief has got to be feeling a little ...

ThinkFast: March 25, 2009
Think Progress — ... .” Americans can submit economy-focused questions to the White House website — and vote others’ questions up or down — and President Obama will answer them during a web townhall tomorrow. View the more than 10,000 questions that have already been submitted, or ask your own, here. ...

Forget the MSM, pose your own questions to President Obama
Top of the Ticket — The White House is launching a new effort to reach the public without the filter of the mainstream media. So if you cringed at some of the questions posed at last night's presser by reporters accredited to cover the White House, or just wanted to ask your own, now is the time to speak up. In fact a new White House website -- www.whitehouse.gov/openforquestions -- allows you not only to lob in some questions about the economy, but also to vote on the importance of those that have already been offered. As of this morning, 9,677 people had submitted 10,806 questions and cast 355,040 ...

Obama Will Take Online Questions Via “The White House Is Open To Questions” On Thursday
The Moderate Voice — Thursday morning will mark yet another chapter in President Barack Obama’s use of all aspects of the new media to get his message out and answer questions. Literally. He’ll be going online Thursday morning to take questions from people about the economy. Here’s the White House video: The White House is Open for Questions from White House on Vimeo The White House is headlining this “The White House Is Open For Questions” and here is how they frame it: Today, the ...

Read These Now Before You Get Stoned by Hypocrites
Shakesville — ... little endeavor. Let's see how long it lasts. All homosexuals should be stoned to death, says Muslim preacher of hate. (Mail) "Yet a week ago, the Daily Mail exposed fundamentalist Choudary's student days when he was pictured swigging beer, cavorting with women and puffing on a cannabis joint - offences for which he would be lashed and stoned under his version of Sharia law." Transcript of Obama's press conference last night. (NY) The White House is Open For Questions about the economy. Gary Locke ...

Going to the Source
Angry Bear — Robert Waldmann Ask Mr Obama. Criticisms of the Geithner plan (including mine) focus on the no recourse loans from the FDIC which give private partners of the Treasury an incentive to over pay for toxic legacy assets. In the plan as briefly described in a press release and interpreted here, there are two different programs. One an FDIC program to provide no recourse loans to encourage purchases of "pools of mortgages" (or is that of, for example, "pools of mortgages" but also more toxic derivatives of derivatives) and a separate program of private public partnership to buy any ...

Got a question for the President? You know you do.
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Last night, the usual suspects from CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS got to ask questions of the President -- again. However, the White House isn't limiting questions to the press types who squeeze into the East Room. Their questions usually don't reflect reality. So, the White House has opened it up at Open For Questions. From the website, we're told Obama will be answering some of the questions himself: ...

Got A Question For President Obama?
The Latest on Air America — Got A Question For President Obama? By Dan Pashman President Obama will be taking questions via the web tomorrow morning, in what we're pretty sure is the first ever presidential town hall. You can submit questions now and vote ...

Live From Obama's Online Town Hall
The Nation: Top Stories — The White House, Washington, D.C. -- President Barack Obama convened his first online town hall here on Thursday, fielding a few popular questions from the web about the economy. Over about an hour and twenty minutes, Obama took six questions from the Internet and five queries from a small audience gathered in the East Room, the majestic, gold-curtained gathering spot for presidential press conferences and White House "message events." While the town hall event may feel like a minor and measured step, Presidents do not usually answer questions from citizens in the White ...

Questions for Obama
Daily Kos — Submit your questions to Obama for his first online town hall. Having watched the "experts" ask the questions the last few months, here are some Beltway Elite-approved questions you can ask: Why are you so boring? How about cracking some jokes? Don't you realize how inappropriate it is when you crack jokes? What is "volcano"? And what is "monitoring"? Why are you talking to us and not the NY Times, Washington Post, WSJ or USA Today? Aren't you exhausted from walking and chewing gum at the same time? Where were you ...

Christina Bellantoni: POTUS' Twitter feed reactivated
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — First published at WashingtonTimes.com President Obama hasn't "tweeted" since just before his inauguration, but as the White House is going all out to build support for the budget, the first Twitter post of his presidency went live. The Barack Obama Twitter feed just posted a link to the WhiteHouse.gov online townhall forum, planned for Thursday. It's the first official Twitter post since Jan. 19, not counting the time the account was hacked. Wonder if text messaging may make a comeback for the ...

Obama to Answer Online Questions
The Caucus — In another extension of the online White House, President Obama plans to answer the most popular questions submitted via the Web by civilians at a new feature, Open for Questions , when he holds a town hall in the East Room tomorrow morning. The new online effort, officially maintained as part of ...

Obama Restarts Twitter Account
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — President Obama's Twitter account has been quiet since the day before inauguration. But now the POTUS is starting to use the outlet again, as part of his budget campaign. Obama posted a message Wednesday promoting tomorrow's online town hall. His first tweet since January 19th: Follow the Huffington Post Politics team on Twitter at http://twitter.com/huffpost.

Obama Restarts Twitter Account
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — President Obama's Twitter account has been quiet since the day before inauguration. But now the POTUS is starting to use the outlet again, as part of his budget campaign. Obama posted a message Wednesday promoting tomorrow's online town hall. His first tweet since January 19th: Follow the Huffington Post Politics team on Twitter at http://twitter.com/huffpost. More on Obama's First 100 Days ...

The Bi-partisan Economic Collapse
Open Left - Front Page — ... A question on whether the administration will repeal the 1999 Financial Modernization Act and reinstate Glass-Steagal is the top, non-marijuana related question in the Financial Stability section of Open For Questions at Whitehouse.gov. Go vote for it. It is a question that demands an answer. ...

Wednesday's Mini-Report
Political Animal — ... pretty damn impressive: * And finally, the White House is " open for questions ." I tend to think initiatives like these are a pretty good idea. Anything to add? Consider this an open thread.— ...

Chris Weigant: Question For Obama: How About A Science-Based Drug Policy?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — President Obama is taking your questions now, and will answer them tomorrow. In a move to make Obama more accessible and answerable to the public, the White House web site is soliciting questions from the public for Obama to answer on their new "Open For Questions" page. So, given the opportunity, what question would you ask the president? Personally, I would choose: "Will drug policy be included in your new science-based approach to government, or will you let politics continue to trump science in this arena?" Because there have been two specific news items in the past few weeks, and while they are almost completely ...

Open for Questions: A Republican Opportunity
The Next Right — The long awaited MyBO and Change.gov mojo is back on WhiteHouse.gov. Tomorrow, President Obama will be responding to questions posed through the latest iteration of Open for Questions, a community-moderated style townhall. With a little organizing, this is an opportunity for Republicans to vote up questions that hold Obama accountable for ballooning the national debt to $20 trillion by 2019. And this time, many already have. Based on my rough sampling, about a third of the questions come from Obamabots, a third are from Republicans, and a third from marijuana legalization advocates. Here are a few questions I ...

Obama's Virtual Town Hall Questions
Politics Daily — Filed under: Barack Obama, Economy, MediaAs announced yesterday, the president will hold the first ever virtual town hall meeting today at 11:30 a.m. Anyone who registers at WhiteHouse.gov can submit a question. So far, 82,358 have done so. A Digg-style format, where users vote on which questions the president should answer, has generated 3.254,949 votes and counting. Voting closes at 9:30 a.m. A quick glance at the topics shows the topic of "Jobs" has received the largest amount of questions. Perhaps that's because, as we learned today, the country set another record today for ...

LIVE - Obama's Town Hall
Politics Daily — Obama's Virtual Town Hall has begun. You can watch it here, and follow me on Twitter by refreshing this page. follow MichaelCK at http://twitter.com   Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

Obama Keeps Selling Budget
The Hollywood Liberal — ... reports. Said a spokeswoman: “The ad will run on national and D.C. cable — primarily MSNBC and CNN. This is just one of the many tools we’ll provide our supporters with, to help them make their voices heard and send a strong signal to Washington that the time for change is now.” Meanwhile, Obama will hold an online town hall meeting on the economy at 11:30 am ET in which over 30,000 questions have already been submitted. [image] ...

Thursday Morning Open Thread
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... Today at 11:30 a.m. Eastern time, the President is going to answer questions about the economy submitted to "Open for Questions." You can also vote on questions until 9:30 a.m. I think we'll see a caliber of questions that actually reflect the interests and concerns of the American people, not the elite of the DC press corps (who aren't really experiencing the recession.) This is another way for Obama use new media and new technology to interact with the all of. He's not limited to the traditional media. Obama knows it. They know it. ...

Open for Questions
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... at 11:30 am ET on the White House's website. White House is asking only for questions on the economy. People can vote on which questions they want Obama to answer until 9:30 am ET. Submit and view questions here. ...

Obama Keeps Selling Budget
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — ... Meanwhile, Obama will hold an online town hall meeting on the economy at 11:30 am ET in which over 30,000 questions have already been submitted. ...

Obama's online town hall: 'Wisdom'
The Swamp — by Mark Silva and Christi Parsons The president is answering a lot of questions about the economy these days. Today, he will answer them online - opening an Internet "town hall'' session from the White House - where President Barack Obama will respond to the most "popular'' of thousands of questions that people have posed to the president at his Website. More than 30,000 people had submitted questions yesterday, for a conversation with the president that begins at 11:30 am EDT today at the White House Website. The president will answer the ones which most people who ...

TPMDC Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central — Dem Ad Promotes Obama Budget, Door To Door Campaign The DNC and Organizing For America have released this new TV ad promoting President Obama's budget plan: Interestingly, the ad focuses on OFA's recent door to door canvassing efforts to sign up supporters for the budget, utilizing the same grassroots appeal in government as Obama used on the campaign trail. The ad will run on national cable and in the D.C. media market -- essentially aimed at the political class and higher-information voters. Obama Holding Online Town Hall Today ...

Pressing on a Campaign Promise
The Sundries Shack — Later this morning, the President, still smarting from having to actually answer a couple non-softball questions from the normally docile MSM, will hie himself to the friendly confines of the White House where he’ll answer some fan mail . Most of the questions I’ve seen are either mash notes with a question mark at the end or variations on “When can I expect all the stuff you promised to give me?”, but there are a few that qualify as insightful. ...

Tracking questions for Obama
News — Tracking questions for Obama The questions President Obama will answer during his online town meeting today will be determined by voting at the White House web site. So far, questions in the category of "Financial Security" outnumber other issues, but more people have voted on "Jobs" related questions–nearly twice as many people in fact. Voting ends at 9:30AM EST. In 5, 4, 3……

Obama's Interactive Town Hall Meeting
The Caucus — President Obama is trying to talk directly to the American people these days, making the case for his ambitious agenda in forums as varied as Jay Leno’s late-night television show and a news conference on Tuesday. Now Mr. Obama will have a chance at even more direct engagement, in what the White House is billing as the first Internet video news conference by an American president. Mr. Obama will appear in the East Room Thursday morning for an interactive town hall meeting – a kind of Internet version of the question and answer sessions he has been holding around the country. He will appear before a live ...

Ask the White House: The War On Drugs Gets A Hearing
Swampland — ... As public voting closes on the online questions that Obama should answer in the East Room at 11:30 this morning, one thing is clear. Drug policy is a big issue for the online minions. The top questions in various categories follow below. ...

And the winners are: Top Web questions for Obama's online town hall today
Top of the Ticket — At 8:30 a.m. Pacific, President Obama plans to stride into the East Room for the first "Open for Questions" online town hall in presidential history -- webcast live on www.whitehouse.gov. Vice President Joe Biden's chief economist, Jared Bernstein, will play moderator, reading the most popular questions posed by visitors to the website, who voted on the best queries. Then the president will take follow-up questions from a live audience of 100 teachers, nurses, small-business owners and community leaders. Online visitors got to pose questions and ...

Open For Questions: Obama Holding Online Chat On Economy
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — WASHINGTON — Call it Round Two of the news conference, with a big Internet twist. President Barack Obama took questions from the White House press corps on Tuesday in a prime-time, East Room session that represented the most formal and time-honored of president-and-reporter interactions. On Thursday, he is taking to that same room for another public grilling _ this time by regular folks armed with questions submitted via the Internet and in person, as part of a political strategy to engage Americans directly. "It's a way for the president to do what ...

Obama’s online townhall: What’s really going on?
Michelle Malkin — [image] At 11:30am Eastern, President Obama will conduct an “online townhall” on the economy. At this moment, the White House website reports that “92,889 people have submitted 104,079 questions and cast 3,608,538 votes.” In order to ask a question, you must register your name, e-mail, and zip code. The DNC, fresh off its ...

Virtual Town Hall
Daily Kos — A reminder that this morning, President Barack Obama will bypass the traditional media and go online for a virtual town hall meeting, answering some of the tens of thousands of questions submitted from around the country over the past several days. As Robert Gibbs described it during yesterday's White House press briefing: It's a way for the president to do what he enjoys doing out on the road, but saves on gas. Watch it here, beginning at 11:30 a.m. (EDT). ...

Getting Our "Open for Questions" Legs: Making Sense of the WhiteHouse.gov Experiment
techPresident — ... Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the White House new media team is emerging triumphant from...Lemme try again. Like General George Washington's revolutionary soldiers, counted out after their rations dwindled and they couldn't get their email working...Nevermind. The point is, after a predictably slow start, the White House's new media operation is being seen in a new light as a result of today's Open for Questions online forum. "The Obama technological and organizational dynamo," writes the Washington Times' Jon Ward, ...

Obama’s Online Town Hall Q&A Begins This Morning
The Moderate Voice — ... area — a Q&A that will literally be conducted by the White House with people online located all over the world. The verdict will likely depend on whether the White House chooses a bunch of softball, puff pieces so it turns out to have been akin to one of George Bush’s campaign rallies where only the faithful could get in. Will he get some softball questions or not? You can participate by going to Open For Questions at this link and setting up an account. The official website says this: We invite you to participate in our ...

Obama on-line (with America) live-blog
The Swamp — by Frank James 11:32 am -- The live-stream from the White House has started. We're looking at the White House medallion logo which is best known as the backdrop in the White House press briefing room. ------------------- We'll be live blogging President Barack Obama's on-line town hall today which is scheduled to start in just minutes. Of course, this would require my laptop to finish booting up, which may or may not happen.

Liveblogging the White House's "Open for Questions"
techPresident — ... From the Department of If We Don't Do It, Who Will?, Micah and I will be liveblogging the White House's online town hall in which President Obama will take questions from WhiteHouse.gov's "Open for Questions" experiment. Join us at 11:30am ET today. ...

Ensuring a friendly audience for online town hall
Ben Smith's Blog — The White House will hold an online town hall today at 11:30 a.m., answering questions drawn from a list voted on by visitors to WhiteHouse.gov's Open for Questions. This is, at first blush -- and in reality -- a form of real transparency, in which the president goes around the media but responds to real Americans. More than 3.6 million people voted on questions submitted by more than 92,000, and many of the top questions are smart and substantive. The event should not be mistaken, however, for a perfect reflection of the concerns of the American people, or even of American Internet users, for two reasons. ...

Open For Questions : PBOs first online Town Hall
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily — ... From Open For Questions : The President is holding a new kind of online town hall where he will answer the questions you submitted and voted on for him. The event begins here at 11:30am ET. You can read the most popular questions submitted on the economy below. The operating word of the day is EXPERIMENT, an experiment in openess and reaching out to common folks. Allegedly. What it's obvious is that it's another opportunity for the Obama administration to practice one of the words from the OFQ Drinking Game: Persistence. Yeah, this "Town Hall" was perfect for a late morning ...

Obama's Online Townhall has begun
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — The White House is live streaming Obama's townhall from the East Room here. He'll be taking the questions, relating to the economy, that received the most votes in each category. According to the website, "92,920 people have submitted 104,116 questions and cast 3,606,819 votes." The President will also take questions from the audience. Jared Bernstein, V.P. Biden's chief economic adviser (and a blogger) did the intro, he just said, "The goal is to open up the White House to the American people." ...

Online Obama Live
Hoffmania! — He's answering the web questions at WhiteHouse.gov right now. Remember how we yearned for a president who can speak about everything coherently? We have him.

Barack Obama Is Open For Questions: Live Stream Now
Hit & Run — The president is doing an interactive livestream chat from the White House (too much yellow, fellow!). The main point so far: Obama is working to minimize expectations while pumping up the optimism. The questions have been piped in from citizens all over the country and let me tell you, you won't see this many softballs outside of a saltpeter factory ever again! To paraphrase Ram Dass, go here now. ...

Tracking the Top Questions on Obama's Online Townhall
techPresident — For the record, the top three questions by each sub-topic on WhiteHouse.gov today are listed below: Education (465,858 votes on 13,737 questions from 28,425 people) -"The Founding Fathers believed that there is no difference between a free society and an educated society. Our educational system, however, is woefully inadequate. How do you plan to restore education as a right and core cultural value in America?" Takeok, Boston, MA (6153 pro, 1029 anti) -"For students graduating from college and graduate school, many of us have obscene amounts of debt. Do you have any plans to help alleviate some of that debt, given the ...

Open Thread: Obama live “town hall”
Hot Air » Top Picks — Open Thread: Obama live “town hall” posted at 12:10 pm on March 26, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly I’m listening to Barack Obama’s “virtual town hall” while doing other work, and if it’s possible, this is even more dull than Tuesday’s press conference.  The questions chosen by Obama’s handlers all serve to feed his favorite tropes, and thirty-four minutes into it, I have yet to hear a challenging question.  The White House set up a voting system to allow the most popular questions to rise to the top.  I’m not sure if they’re following the actual voting ...

A presidential first: Obama hosts virtual Web town hall from White House -- video here
Top of the Ticket — One of the funniest moments came when Vice President Joe Biden's popular economist, Jared Bernstein, introduced the president with a flourish, as if playing sidekick to a talk show host. "Ladies and gentleman, join me in welcoming President Barack Obama!" (Cheers, applause). And the tech-savvy Obama seemed a natural at the forum, ditching the podium for a hand-held mike that allowed him to roam the room in which 100 teachers and community leaders were seated, listening to the president answer some of the 100,000 questions that Internet visitors lobbed into ...

President Obama holds online town hall
Daily Kos — [bumped - BarbinMD] President Obama is currently holding a town hall, answering questions submitted over the internet. Watch it live at DKTV or the White House. ...

NORML Comes to Town (Hall): Is Their Practice of Forcing Questions About Legalizing Green an Example of Grassroots or Astroturf?
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Meg White President Barack Obama held his first online town hall meeting today, after allowing several days to gather e-mail and video questions through the White House Web site. The site also allowed people to vote on questions they deemed most important. The White House has indicated this is the first of many such public Web forums, and that this first one would concentrate on -- surprise, surprise -- the economy. Of the 11 topics (education, home ownership, health care reform, veterans, small business, auto industry, retirement security, green jobs and energy, financial ...

Jim Gilliam: Pot saved my life, Mr. President
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Today, in the historic first online town hall, President Obama fielded questions from nearly a hundred thousand people online. One of the most popular questions, and indeed, one of the most popular questions in any forum that lets people vote on what matters to them, was about whether legalizing marijuana would help improve the economy and job creation. Chuckling, the President said: "I don't know what this says about the online audience, but [laughing] this was a fairly popular question, we want to make sure it was answered. The answer is no, I don't think that is a good strategy to grow our economy." ...

President Obama Holds Virtual Town Hall Meeting
Political Punch — Previous | Main President Obama Holds Virtual Town Hall Meeting March 26, 2009 2:30 PM In an event the White House billed as the first virtual presidential town hall meeting in American history, President Obama today took six out of 104,097 questions submitted online from citizens, and six from regular people gathered in the East room. On Tuesday, the White House announced it would be holding the event, prompting 92,932 people to submit text and video questions for the president, casting 3,606,274 votes to determine which would be asked."I am thrilled that all of you here in the White House and everybody who is viewing ...

More Change in Obama's America: New Pronunciation for OB-GYN
Hit & Run — While watching, listening, and largely ignoring President Obama's funtastic online streaming webcast Zager & Evans in the Year 2525 futuristic Town Hall meeting (note: in the future, towns will be replaced with populations of bald, big-headed humans with artificially enhanced IQs and matching jumpsuits), I heard our dear leader talk about how much he liked nurses and how, rest assured, they would be heavily consulted as he attempts to salvage our nation's ailing healthcare sector. Then he went on to talk about the OB-GYNS who delivered his two daughters and how they really didn't spend anytime with him or ...

Obama Won’t Legalize Pot, Wonders If Online Community is a Bunch of Stoners
Firedoglake — In his first ever interactive town hall meeting, President Obama addressed questions and issues raised online from the change.gov site. One of the most popular ideas floated online there and on the pre-inaugural citizen's policy book was the legalization and taxation of marijuana, which could provide additional taxes and jobs, as well as lowering criminal justice costs. His response: ...

President Obama: What Is So Funny About Taxing And Regulating Marijuana?
Congress Blog — Speaking live at an online Town Hall Meeting Thursday morning President Barack Obama pledged “to open up the White House to the American people.” Well, to some of the American people that is. As for those tens of millions of you who believe that cannabis should be legally regulated like alcohol — and the tens of thousands of you who voted to make this subject the most popular question in today’s online Presidential Town Hall ...

Paul Armentano: President Obama: What Is So Funny About Taxing And Regulating Marijuana?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Speaking live at an online Town Hall Meeting Thursday morning, President Barack Obama pledged "to open up the White House to the American people." Well, to some of the American people, that is. As for those tens of millions of you who believe that cannabis should be legally regulated like alcohol -- and the tens of thousands of you who voted to make this subject the most popular question in today's online Presidential Town Hall -- well, your voice doesn't really matter. Asked this morning whether he "would ... support the bill currently going through the California legislation to legalize and ...

Engineering a better virtual town hall
techPresident — President Obama and his new media team are rightfully receiving kudos for their inaugural online town hall . Roundup at Personal Democracy Forum . It's a brave step forward in a system that's naturally (and understandably) conservative. Because it was a pilot, there's room to improve, as the first commenter on the linked PDF post points out. Moving forward, the new media team should focus on re-tuning the technology to hit the core values and purposes of town halls and citizen participation: 1. Patch vulnerabilities. Whether or not you believe legalizing marijuana is a ...

Carlos Santana wants Obama to legalize marijuana
Top of the Ticket — Maybe he was inspired by the Las Vegas rock club where he will soon be setting up shop during a 6+ month residency, or maybe he was inspired by Barack Obama's answer to the most popular question posed by Americans to the president. In an interview with the Associated Press this week while promoting his upcoming run at The Joint, Carlos Santana was clear about his position about the legalization of marijuana, and took a shot at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger while he was at it. "I really believe that ...

Berstein Tackles Open for Questions' Econ Qs
techPresident — The White House is taking a third bite at the apple, answering still more questions generated by its Open for Questions experiment from a few weeks back. You'll remember that after President Barack Obama responded to questions asked of him on the Internet in a live town hall, the presidential conch shell was passed to staff. Kareem Dale, the president's point person on disability policy, tackled a health care question having to do with the challenges the disabled face in keeping their insurance coverage when getting a job. This time, Joe Biden's economist ...

Using Distributed Media (and People) To Ask Hard Questions
techPresident — ... the Stanford students. And not the rest of us, who don’t especially care if we occasionally make the rich and powerful uncomfortable. Slowly, the traditional media have been inviting the rest of us to come up with questions for the people they cover. NBC played at this a bit earlier this year by inviting audience questions that might or might not be asked at an Obama press conference. Other news organizations did similar things. Meanwhile, the savvy Obama media team has created an “ Open for Questions ” area in the White House website. It conducted an ...