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WHY should you let the candidates do all the talking?
Make your voice heard. With the launch of the Eleksyon 2007 Philippine Elections Blog, we are reserving virtual space for you to tell the whole world what you think are the important issues that should decide the outcome of the Philippine elections in May 2010.
What do you think of the candidates? Which issues should be tackled? How can we improve our ongoing coverage of Eleksyon 2007? Listen to our Eleksyon 2007 podcasts, and tell us which questions we should ask candidates in future sessions, or what points you would like them to expound on in future articles. We don’t want to just read your feedback. We want to give you the opportunity to keep the conversation going, not just by posting comments but also by writing your own entries on this blog.
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Now tell us what you think.
March 17th, 2007 at 6:07 am
hi abatumutulakananaman, thanks for your comments.
we did think of holding debates but we decided to focus first on getting each candidate to share their stand on important issues. the candidates will debate on tv, but what tv can’t provide the public due to the cost of air time is an hour or more of each candidate saying what he or she thinks about specific issues. that being said, we’ll see if we can hold our own debates after featuring each candidate.
hey, that’s a really interesting idea on clipping each candidate’s response to a common question. thanks, i’ll see if we can already implement it for the first batch of candidates.
cheers!
March 16th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
The podcasting was indeed a commendable start but if you can have a candidate face off with the likes of Chiz vs Mike,(among others) I think that would spice up everything and would even more relevant to listen to.
Or if you can just go back to previous podcasts and clip all the responses of the candidates right after each similar question. This, I think, could help the podcasts listeners better know each of the candidates say on a common issue.
March 16th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
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