An Italian minister has decided that every week he is going to post a video to YouTube describing and explaining the decisions taken in cabinet. Following on from Hillary Clinton’s internet video declaration, it suggests politicians are getting the message that the web offers a new way in which to reach voters.
In the first of his reports, Antonio Di Pietro, the infrastructure minister in Romano Prodi’s centre-left government, chats his way unscripted for almost seven minutes through last Friday’s cabinet meeting. (You can read a transcript in English on his site). He is filmed sitting on a sofa and flanked by a lamp that sheds a warm and cosy glow.
