Monday, October 18, 2010

President Obama’s ‘Conversation’ with Youth Covers Wealth of Current Issues

President Barack Obama spent an informative hour on Thursday fielding questions from a group of young people. ‘A Conversation with President Obama’ was a highly-publicized event that stretched across several platforms of media.

The live town hall-style discussion was held at the headquarters of BET Networks in Washington, D.C.  Television viewers were able to see the event across a range of Viacom media properties, including BET, CMT, MTV, Centric, and others.  An audience of 225 young people asked the president a range of questions, but the forum was also interactive. The event was streamed live over the Internet with the onsite hosts also taking questions from Twitter during the discussion.

The topics covered included a wide range of subjects, including hot button issues such as education and illegal immigration. Before discussing issues, the President shared his relief at the successful rescue of 33 miners in Chile earlier this week.  read more...




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