Virginia Postrel points out a great story on the way YouTube is changing the dynamics of political debate.
It points out that when Bill Clinton was first running for president in 1992, the media landscape had relatively few mechanisms for holding politicians accountable for misstatements.
There was only room for so many stories on the nightly news, and so when politicians told white lies, reporters tended to move on before anybody could check the claims for accuracy.
But...
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