"Very importantly, this is not a one-off for the election. It will live on and evolve afterwards," Telegraph.co.uk editor Marcus Warren told Journalism.co.uk."
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For the first time, the Guardian also decided to hear not only from its staff, but from its readers and web users, too.
Article also includes great overview of which party the main British papers have supported since 1945.
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The 90-minute debate was also shown on BBC television with well over a million people watching the clash on the BBC News Channel.
More than half a million also tuned in on Sky3 with some 310,000 watching BBC2's repeat of the debate late last night."
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“What TV did best, in this particular context, was to stage the debate: only a broadcast (few-to-many) medium could do that. But where it struggles is in attempting to add value to that broadcast event. To date, it has fallen back on the old, pre-Internet, staples (studio discussions with bigwigs, spinmeisters and columnists) leavened with a smattering of new tech tools (for example, second-by-second reaction tracking). But, actually, the value added is trivial compared with what’s available on the Web and in social media. And the reason for that is simple: TV is a push medium; and the intellectual bandwidth of push media is inherently very narrow. As Neil Postman observed many years ago (and James Fallows also showed in his lovely book, Breaking the News), you can’t do philosophy with smoke signals."
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