Bush & Co. reach out to youth of the world

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[Following in Clinton's footsteps. Hard to imagine Rumsfeld in this role...]


http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020205/en/television-powell_1.html

Secretary of State Powell sets MTV chat

By Pamela McClintock

WASHINGTON (Variety) - MTV viewers and U.S. Secretary of State Colin
Powell (news - web sites) will have an unusual heart-to-heart on
Valentine's Day (news - web sites), when the music network will host a
global town forum packing tough questions for the top diplomat.

MTV channels in the U.S., India, the Middle East, Italy, U.K./Ireland,
Brazil, Russia and elsewhere are hosting the 60-minute special ``Be
Heard: An MTV Global Discussion With Colin Powell.''

The show will be taped the morning of Feb. 14 before a studio audience
in Washington, airing at 8 p.m. (ET/PT) that evening in the U.S. and at
various times elsewhere around the world, MTV said Monday. Powell's
hosts in Washington will be MTV News' John Norris and Gideon Yago.

Questions will be posed by kids gathering at MTV locations around the
globe, with MTV News correspondents and VJs guiding the Q&A with Powell
via satellite. VJs in each territory are bilingual and will translate
viewers' questions to Powell, who will field the questions from a
Washington facility to be determined.

MTV is hardly a natural venue for members of the Bush administration,
but in Washington's new campaign to win the hearts and minds of the
world, it's hard to resist the allure of the music cable network's
impressive reach.

MTV's forum was arranged independently of Hollywood's special wartime
committee. But it nevertheless jibes nicely with a pledge by the
entertainment/media biz to do what it can to open up a dialogue between
the U.S. and other countries, particularly in the Middle East.

Reuters/Variety REUTERS 


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