Also, while the commercial broadcast networks have reduced their commitment, the all-news cable channels have increased theirs. CNN's anchor Judy Woodruff says the networks are giving an important story short shrift. This is an election where the candidates are talking about the issues. If you are interested in just dropping in on the convention floor, we'll have an ongoing 24-hour convention cam from our skybox. Other Internet organizations have their own innovations.
Users can control the camera angles they are viewing.
The Internet is an extraordinarily valuable medium for covering politics. It allows you to do live television. It allows people to interact with one another, in many ways like the medium of talk radio. It allows people to get news headlines based again, on their schedules, as opposed to when somebody decides to air a broadcast or publish a newspaper. Former newspaper reporter Carl Bernstein, of Watergate fame, now directs the site and its 40 staffers at the convention.