It's an ambitious and inventive project -- New Hampshire Public Radio created a web site that invited residents of Exeter, N.H., to add their thoughts on the presidential hopefuls.
Primary Place Online attracted 187 registered users. Also, PPO complemented NHPR's radio coverage of the primaries, giving a voice to a community eager to share their insights on the candidates.
An
interview with on Greenberg, executive editor of New Hampshire Public Radio explained one of the site's goals:
To give Exeter residents a fuller sense of what it means to participate in the democratic process. By writing for themselves and by reading what their neighbors had written, they could become more conscious of the primary and how it played itself out within their frame of reference.
I like how radio is jumping on the citizen journalism bandwagon. NPHR is smart for bringing PPO to Exeter residents but I look forward to the day when they open the site to all New Hampshire residents.
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