NPR Looking for Politics Podcasters
NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday put out the call for podcasters who are hot for elections last weekend. This blurb appears on their show page:
CALLING ALL PODCASTERS
Are you a podcaster under 30 who’s passionate about Election 2008? Weekend Edition Sunday wants to hear from you! We want diverse podcasters to tell us how the election is playing out in their areas. Tell us why you’d be a good choice. Send us an e-mail with details about yourself and your interest in the election. Please put “WESUN Podcaster” in the subject line. Be sure to include links to your previous podcast work.
The obvious question, which Minnesota podcasters have been discussing, is why “under 30″? That certainly puts a bit of a kibosh on the “diversity” they’re looking for.
My guess is that they’re interested in intersection of the “new media” and “engaging the youth” aspects of it. While older persons may be knowledgeable about the new media part, they’re still grizzled jaded grownups who vote for entirely different reasons than fresh-faced folks who are more worried about changing the world than preserving their retirement.
I am curious to see what they turn up. The buzz I hear around new media coverage of politics is pretty much all video (e.g., the fine work the folks at The Uptake are doing).
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Boo! How about podcasts from listeners 50 and over? There are more of us, and we have a greater voting % than any other age group.
A grey beard (I’m growing mine out) doesn’t allways mean unhip.
Prince is 50, you know…
I think politics podcasters might be a tad hard to come by, regardless of age. So I think they’d not want to limit themselves unless that’s part of their angle. Which I think it is. I’m guessing the angle is that podcasting helps get out the vote amongst people who don’t traditionally vote in appreciable numbers.