Musings of an Inappropriate Woman

Who's afraid of YouTube?

The Libs, apparently.

From Monday’s Australian:

“Liberal insiders are concerned that voters are being confused by ‘enthusiastic amateurs’ putting their own guerilla campaign advertising and messages on YouTube and other websites.”

As opposed to impeccably informed and utterly unbiased candidates.

Seriously though, if you’ve looked at election-related satire YouTube lately, it’s not clear what exactly they’ve got to be worried about. The video satire is targeted fairly evenly at the major Parties, and most of it doesn’t really engage with the substance of the campaign. Much of it isn’t even funny (despite being a political satire tragic, the only video I’ve really enjoyed so far is this one).

What they’re really worried about, I suspect, are activist groups like GetUp! and Adopt-A-Politician. Which is not without reason, but I don’t think this is a case of ‘confusion’ so much as ‘inability to monopolise the message.’