Politician Generated Content
May 10, 2007
DC Media Maker and web 2.0 raconteur Jonny Goldstein files a report today from Capitol Hill, where House Subcommittee Chairman, Ed Markey, (D., MA) was holding a hearing on the “Future of Video”. Congressman Markey made “news” today by making media! Markey, accustomed to looking AT lenses, not THROUGH them, paid homage to the user generated content generation by hoisting a DV camera and shooting from the dais. His staff (presumably) posted the video on Youtube.
Based on the quality of the camerawork, lets just say that Markey maintaining his seat in the House, and I keeping my day job as a news cameraman are both good things. 
What’s interesting, and very meta, is that Jonny Goldstein was there recording the event and gives us the reverse angle!
Testifying before Markey’s committee were a who’s who of media heavy-hitters including Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, Thomas S. Rogers of TiVo, Benjamin N. Pyne from Disney and ESPN Networks, Blake Krikorian of Sling Media and Mark Cuban, co-founder of HDNet.
For my assembled readers here in the metro DC area, Jonny will be at a meeting of the DC Media Makers tonight, and will show a clip or two of the hearing.
Ann Broache of CNET has a complete report of the hearing with some interesting atmosperics.
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May 10th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
May 11th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
[...] May 11th, 2007 · No Comments DC Media Maker Jonny Goldstein headed down to the Capitol in DC to shoot a congressional hearing on the future of video. The Chairman of the Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee, Ed Markey, of Massachusetts. shot video of the proceedings, vlogger style, which his staff YouTubed after the hearing. Jonny promptly YouTubed the footage he shot of Markey shooting his video…whew! Rashomon style. Markey’s video is here, courtesy Carl Weaver. Jonny found out about the hearing reading Mobile Diner, Chris Parandian’s blog. Jim Long has some thoughts and related media links here. [...]
May 11th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
It was a lot of fun attending this. My camerawork was even shakier than Markey’s because I was laughing so hard at his antics.