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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

YouTube Aims To Be Major News Provider

Q&A with White House, News Feed breaking news feature are latest in site's evolution

If you’ve still got questions before or after President Barack Obama addresses the nation on the Gulf oil spill (tonight at 8 p.m. ET), go ahead and submit them to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. He’ll be doing his best to answer after the speech, live via YouTube.

It won’t be the first time the nation’s most tech-friendly presidency interacted with the masses via the video-sharing site. In 2008, the-then President-elect made history when he recorded the weekly Democratic Party address for radio and video that was posted on YouTube.

These days, the White House has its own YouTube channel. And starting now, you can submit your questions in either video or text form via the site’s recently-updated Google Moderator tool. (Google owns YouTube.) Even if you don’t have a question to submit, you can view and vote for questions from others.

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