A brave new worldwide web

The huge audience draw and the immediacy of the internet have made one director with a social conscience switch from feature films to online video When the furore about the Rev Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama was at its height a few months ago, one of the biggest hits on YouTube revealed that the Republican contender John McCain had his own pastor problem. Sandwiched between the kind of comic clips for which the site is best known, the video produced by Brave New Films showed the Rev Rod Parsley, a spiritual adviser to John McCain, making incendiary comments about Islam. When the mainstream media ran the story, McCain was eventually forced to distance himself from the church leader. The success of the video and the sequel - The Real McCain 2, which documented several policy flip-flops on issues such as Iraq and the US... [read full story]