US elected President Barack Obama is planning to tape a weekly address not just for radio listeners, as presidents have for years, but for YouTube Internet viewers, too.
Well, what else would you expect from a president born at the tail end of the baby boom? Connecting the White House hearth to the American home, Franklin Roosevelt talked to the people through the radio, with crackling broadcasts delivered near a crackling fire. John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan mastered television. For Obama, who built a big part of his campaign on the Internet, it's YouTube.
About 75 years after Roosevelt used a new medium to reach out during troubled times, the president-elect is doing the same with Web videos. Obama was recording a four-minute address Friday at his transition office in Chicago. It will be posted Saturday through a YouTube link on his transition Web site, http://www.change.gov. And he will continue to do the videos when he takes office on Jan. 20.
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