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Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Blog —
Right now, the community on this site is writing and producing a Citizen's Briefing Book that will land on President Obama's desk in the White House soon after he takes office.
The project has solicited thousands of submissions and comments. Transition team members have been attentively watching the Book's creation, and several of them have taken the time to sit with our video crew and talk about what they're seeing unfold online.
We're putting together a series of videos with their reactions to some of the most popular ideas in the Citizen's Briefing Book. It's a chance for some of the leading experts (and soon-to-be administration officials) in fields ...
Presidents and Media Change
Matthew Yglesias —
Here’s a fascinating point from Matt Compton that I’m going to steal. It’s about a speech FDR gave in 1929. During the speech, according to H.W. Brands’ new biography he argued that back in the day “Elections were won or lost, parties were driven out or swept into power entirely as the public speakers of one side or the other proved most able and convincing. It was the golden age of the silver tongue.” But then came the rise of the newspaper and the first great era of the sound bite. Compton’s paraphrase:
That tradition, however, had changed with the advent of mass media in the form of the ...
Obama's Citizen's Briefing Book Changes the Flow Of Information
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
Earlier this week, the Obama transition team launched a "Citizen's Briefing Book" on their Change.gov website. The venture aimed to create a virtual white paper, authored by engaged citizens, to pitch ideas to the incoming administration. Topics that were voted the most popular would make there way to Obama's desk.
As lines of Oval Office communication go, the concept is certainly novel. There are, usually, very few avenues by which individuals can directly engage the president. The Obama team is seeking to not only open up that the pipeline of communication but democratize it as well.
On Wednesday, the president-elect's team took the next logical ...
Obama's Citizen's Briefing Book Changes the Flow Of Information
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Earlier this week, the Obama transition team launched a "Citizen's Briefing Book" on their Change.gov website. The venture aimed to create a virtual white paper, authored by engaged citizens, to pitch ideas to the incoming administration. Topics that were voted the most popular would make there way to Obama's desk.
As lines of Oval Office communication go, the concept is certainly novel. There are, usually, very few avenues by which individuals can directly engage the president. The Obama team is seeking to not only open up that the pipeline of communication but democratize it as well.
On Wednesday, the president-elect's team took the next logical ...
