Opinion: In an election campaign as drawn out as this, you’d have to have excellent memory to remember the hype around John Howard’s use of YouTube to make policy announcements. Some months ago, the media were all over the story – but unfortunately for the Prime Minister, much like the widely-predicted poll ‘narrowing’, the YouTube effect has been missing in action.
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