I think I ever really good idea. One of the main reasons why people don't read the newspaper is because they don't understand politics very well. Most people are taught the basics of politics as child. Even though I'm in journalism my understanding of government and how it works is limited. I'm sure that if people knew more about politics and government they would be more interested in the news.
Here's my idea. Politics as a whole is pretty boring. The reason why are we will watch the Colbert Report and the Daily show is because it's fun. I was at buffalo wild wings eating that Asian zing wings. I looked at a TV and it had trivia on it. And that's when it hit me. None of the stuff that it on the TV was very interesting but there is a sense of competition. What I want to do is have an application that can be used on a high end cell phone or a laptop. I think it would be real cool if thousands of questions about politics were broadcast to cell phones and laptops. It's not like people aren't text messaging and playing Tetris instead of listening to the professor. So I would like a a multiple choice game that is broadcast all. At the end of a the day a leaderboard will go up. We can also compete against other schools.
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your idea the best i think we shoulkd roll with it
How would you make this appeal to a news organization? What's the incentive? Are the players ranked by how well they answer questions?
Wait I'm kind of unclear. So this would be trivia questions about the news, or government, or what? Would it educate people about the issues or expect them to have a pre-existing knowledge?
There's a thing like this trivia idea at a few pubs in the area around here in Vermont and every week a ton of people show up. The most intriguing part about it is that they ask some very difficult questions about news events from the past 100 years.
I think the only hitch is in Tyler's comment - why would people bother and would they learn anything new? We should grasp onto that element and run with it - if we can figure out how to educate users of this trivia, then we have something.
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