YouTube Hails State of the Union 'Milestone,' Citizens To Ask Obama Questions

YouTube on Wednesday will broadcast the State of the Union address on Citizentube and unveil a Google Moderator series that gives people the opportunity to submit questions to President Barack Obama.

People will have the ability to submit questions and vote on their favorites. Next week, YouTube will bring some of the top-voted questions to the president in a YouTube interview that will stream live from the White House on Citizentube. A YouTube representative from the News and Politics team will moderate the interview. "With this opportunity, everyday citizens will have the same type of access once only reserved for journalists," says Steve Grove, head of News and Politics at YouTube. "It's a new milestone for the State of the Union speech and demonstrates the way that platforms like YouTube can be used to increase transparency in government and access to world leaders."