Online DNC audience will see more than ever before
By Sara Burnett, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published August 1, 2008 at 4:37 p.m.
Updated August 1, 2008 at 4:37 p.m.
The online audience will be able to see more of the Democratic National Convention this year than ever before, including HD video, the text of speeches, speaker bios and Spanish translation — all available within minutes.
The Web site will include the evening programs at the Pepsi Center and Invesco Field at Mile High, as well as events during the day at the Colorado Convention Center, such as delegation meetings.
“We’ll be the place to go to really catch the convention gavel to gavel,” said Aaron Myers, director of online communications for the DNCC.
The features will be posted on the DNCC’s existing Web site, www.demconvention.com, using Microsoft’s Silverlight technology, Myers said.
Jenny Backus, a senior adviser to presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama, said the Web site will allow the campaign to get the message of the convention to the world, unfiltered.
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August 1, 2008
7:47 p.m.
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Mike846 writes:
One of the requirements for being granted US citizenship is the ability to speak English. By definition, only US citizens can vote in elections. Why do we need Spanish translators? Are the Democrats planning on reaching a non-voting audience, or merely pandering to the illegal alien population which, if the Democrat Party has its way, will all become legal voters in the next four years? You can also bet your boots that any unseemly demonstrations either inside or outside the Pepsi Center will NOT be shown on these web sites. We've already seen that in the primaries. If it wasn't for the fact that damn near everyone has a cell phone camera or better, we'd have never heard Saint Obama criticize the people who "cling to their guns and churches". We'd not have had the priviledge of hearing how his pastor of 20 plus years regularly savages America. The same America that allowed Obama and his wife to make over $1.2 million last year. The same America that allows him to run for President despite only having been in the Senate 143 days before he announced his candidacy. And the list goes on and on. Democrats beware: this time, the whole world IS watching....and listening. Mike
August 2, 2008
10:08 a.m.
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Colorado_Bill writes:
Yo, Mikey!
So much better to vote for the party that sent thousands of America's best and most patriotic overseas to die as targets in a shooting gallery, with no benefit to America to show for it.
Well, not entirely without benefit. Their big-spending campaign contributors made billions on their investment when they were gifted those fat military contracts.
"Your tax dollars at work."
August 2, 2008
6:22 p.m.
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not_gene writes:
Gene -
Your comments here really disappoint. "Sub Continent"? Wow. You've never really shown a blatant racist side before, but to dismiss and belittle nearly 1 billion people, is rather shocking.
Western powers worked through the period of colonialism to cripple an entire world. Currently, we (as a human species) live with the sins of our ancestors by watching the African people live in base conditions that truly degrade us all.
Of course, you will ignore a potential dialogue over the state of Africa and bring up Obama's comment about his white grandmother in the address he delivered, which is probably the most important and provocative speech given on race in the past two decades.
Gene, we expect more from you.