Wait, weren't MySpace and MTV just recently destroying the moral and intellectual fiber of the Republic?

From Future Majority:

Trumping even YouTube in interactivity, the forums will be held town-hall style in front of a live audience on yet-to-be-determined college campuses. Questions will be submitted live via IM, text messaging, and email. Most intererestingly, the event will employ continuous live polling, allowing the audience to rate candidates' responses (and allowing a competent moderator to properly follow up when candidates dodge, obfuscate, or just plain don't answer the question). At the end of the event - which will be broadcast on MTV, MTVu, MTV.com and MySpaceTV - all footage will be available for remix and reuse.

If MTV and MySpace can establish a working feedback loop in which voter-generated questions are presented to the candidates, the audience rates the answers, a competent moderator incorporates that feedback into a follow-up question, and the audience itself is then led to ask different questions based on the candidate's response, we might actually find ourselves in the midst of a national, truly participatory, debate.

That second paragraph is a big, important, hopeful If. I would love to see this be more than a gimmick, but a way to really hold candidates' feet to the fire.

(Via Teresa Valdez Klein on Twitter)