Íñigo Méndez De Vigo, Spanish MEP, on PrimeTime last night.*
Granted, Mark Little’s going to get a gig reffing WWE matches after a few more debates like this one, but that’s because Méndez was one of the best media performers I’ve seen. He was pretty persuasive. Like explaining how Ireland managed to negotiate a fair deal for smaller countries, giving them equal time for a commissioner; and addressing another key issue, the democratic deficit. Before Lisbon, the European Parliament has oversight of just 20% of the EU budget. After Lisbon, it has oversight of 100%.
Why weren’t these arguments being made effectively, instead of the shallow ad hominem attacks?
* If someone has figured out how to edit down the ivr RealPlayer files RTÉ is using, let me know. Seems weird for broadcasters - who are waking up to the fact that blogged clips (with their network logo) are going to increase their total audience - to rely on a format designed to frustrate your desire not to have to wade through 30 minutes of video to come to the 30 seconds you actually want to see.
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1 Dan Sullivan // Jun 12, 2008 at 7:28 am
Jazz Biscuit has some work done on what to do it embed. I had done some editing myself to get to the pieces I wanted (with the assistance of another), I will take another look at it today and post something.
2 Richard // Jun 12, 2008 at 8:37 am
Thanks Dan - I’ll hunt around for that.
3 Dan Sullivan // Jun 12, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Richard, I posted some details on how to focus on a specific part of the clip and also linking to the piece from Jazz Biscuit. It’s not pretty but it is doable.
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