In a local political ad that looks more like a National TV promo for a new NBC Drama Carmen Trutanich is introduced the same way a new star would be launch for a new Fall television series. His 2009 Official Los Angeles City Attorney Campaign Website has the FLASH intro of a modest motion picture release. If an actor can be president why not market a politician as an actor? Not knowing his political leanings does this slick video make you want to vote for Trutanich for the 2009 Los Angeles City Attorney?

Do you think his TV show could give Law and Order a run for it’s money?

Do you think Obama has raised the bar on political advertising and the use of social media?

WARNING THE ABOVE VIDEO CONTAINS EXPLICIT MATERIAL!

They say never to discuss politics or sex in mix company. Well this is web video and the rules are changing every day. What could be consider a video reenactment of a phone call between embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich & now White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is bound to move two or more emotions and travel across the Internet but like other videos it is changing the way we consume news.

Because of social media, Political free speech is changing in front of our eyes everyday and what we once thought to be secret now travels at the speed of viral video.

Web Video offers us new insights into the lives of people we have never met and turns ordinary citizens into journalist, even though some people don’t consider bloggers as “real” news people who can break the news.

Not only are bloggers real journalist, bloggers are now reinventing the way the news business works and the way national political news stories are broken.

Take for example the above video. What is it? Is it political free speech? I say yes. Is it parody? I say yes. Is it art? I say yes? Is it breaking news? I say yes.

Is it emotionally engaging and does it take citizen journalism, freedom of information, government transparency, digital art and fair use to a new arena?

We will see.

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