Internet community interviews Clinton via WWB 2000
Henk Vreekamp
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Sun Aug 13 11:01:16 CEST 2000
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>This is great example of how collaboration among the online news
>outlets can lead to great things.
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>Steven Clift
>WWB
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>To link to WWB with the WWB Icon, sign up as a WWB Participating Site
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>Steven Clift
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>Internet Community Interviews President Clinton
>via Web White & Blue 2000
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>WASHINGTON, Aug 11 /PRNewswire/ --
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> On Saturday, August 12, members of the 17 largest Internet traffic
>centers and numerous non-profit sites will interview President Bill
>Clinton with questions posed via Web White & Blue 2000. Visitors are
>submitting questions through the network to be chosen by the
>independent and non-partisan Web White & Blue 2000 editor. This is
>the first time an aggregate of 85% of the Web has gathered in such a
>forum, offering their 69 million visitors the chance to virtually
>interview the President. Directly following the interview, members
>of the Internet community will be able to see and hear President
>Clinton answer their queries on the Charter Participants' sites and
>http://www.webwhiteblue.org.
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> "The goal of Web White & Blue 2000 is to create a better educated
>public and to encourage the millions of people who receive news and
>information online to be actively involved in the election process
>and to vote," said Doug Bailey, senior advisor for Web White & Blue
>2000.
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> As part of Web White & Blue 2000's mission to provide balanced and
>non-partisan election coverage, Web White & Blue 2000 has invited the
>Republican National Committee to designate someone to participate in
>a similar interview any time between August 20 and September 20,
>2000. Invitations are also currently being extended to parties who
>have qualified on enough state ballots to have a mathematical
>possibility of winning a majority of votes in the Electoral College.
>
>Thousands of non-profit organizations, schools, media outlets and
>individual Web sites are also promoting the mission of Web White &
>Blue 2000 and are joining the effort as Participating Sites. "Web
>White & Blue 2000 is tapping into the Internet's dynamic sense of
>civic pride," said Steve Clift, Web White & Blue 2000 Outreach
>Coordinator.
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> "This is a way that Americans can be encouraged to participate in
>the electoral process in a way that has never before been possible,"
>noted Mike McCurry, senior advisor for Web White & Blue 2000. "This
>is the Internet fulfilling its promise of educating and involving the
>public in the electoral process. Through Web White & Blue 2000,
>President Clinton's interview will be available all over the Web,"
>added Jonah Seiger, co-founder of mindshare Internet Campaigns, LLC
>and strategist for Web White & Blue 2000.
>
>About Web White & Blue 2000 Web White & Blue 2000 is a non-profit,
>non-partisan project of the Markle Foundation designed to highlight
>resources on the Internet that can expand and enhance citizen
>participation in our nation's democratic process. Web White & Blue
>2000 does not endorse or support candidates for public office and
>does not take positions on partisan or election related issues. Web
>White & Blue 2000 has created a network comprised of the 17 largest
>Internet traffic centers which together reach 85% of the American
>Internet audience. Current Charter Participants include:
>ABCNEWS.com, America Online, CNN's allpolitics.com, Excite,
>FOXNews.com, iVillage.com, Microsoft/MSN, MSNBC.com, MTV.com's Choose
>or Lose, NetNoir.com, npr.org (National Public Radio Online),
>NYTimes.com, Oxygen Media, PBS Online, USATODAY.com,
>washingtonpost.com's OnPolitics, Yahoo!. Thousands of sites are
>adding the Web White & Blue 2000 icon to their homepages now through
>the election in support of the network's mission. This network has
>been developed to provide voters with a comprehensive view of the
>best online political information resources. For additional
>information about Web White & Blue 2000 please visit
>http://www.webwhiteblue.org.
>
>
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>SOURCE Web White & Blue 2000
>Web Site: http://www.webwhiteblue.org
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