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The new-age digital president

Leslie D'Monte & Priyanka Joshi / New Delhi November 6, 2008, 0:46 IST

http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=339375

"“Obama is the first ‘YouTube politician’ because he gets that you can’t control internet,” says Ethan, who came to India six weeks back to pursue an assignment with a local NGO."

Does this sound uncharacteristically dumb for Ethan to say? Well, he never said it.

"This Obama fan regularly watched videos on Youtube and even downloaded several of Obama’s speeches. He quips, “I have been witnessing Obama making history online.” Ethan adds, “Today you send a text message, get on Myspace, send out an e-invite for online applications and Obama’s campaign was all about this.”'

Ethan doesn't know what an e-invite is, and he's been on Myspace a total of 3 times. Also, Ethan never "quips" anything.

"Brooke Beasley, an American who has been working with an Indian NGO, believes the youth media practitioners at the Obama camp have been at the forefront of using communication tools and online social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, cellphones, internet, film, video, podcast to generate momentum.The Obama campaign reportedly also paid for in-game advertising in Burnout Paradise — a Xbox 360 racing game.""

Brooke Beasley doesn't believe this and was not aware that Obama advertised in a video game until Ethan told her. The construction Brooke Beasley...believes is an outright lie.

Leslie D'Monte & Priyanka Joshi are hacks who pre-wrote an article and misquoted people for their own ends. They are not journalists. Journalists base their articles on facts; D' Monte and Joshi write whatever they want and lie about what people say to fill in the gaps between their poorly thought out words. They are now officially enemies of the house.