“Twitter’s 140-character blasts aren’t bringing down the newspapers. They’re just turning journalists into sniggering cheap-shot artists. Ever since reporters started using Twitter, an old guard of newspaper hands has complained that the micro-blogging site is undermining the art of journalism, 140 characters at a time. But Twitter is actually more of a threat to a particular strain of journalism, a mostly noble one: press criticism. On Twitter, every journalist is a press critic. This may sound like a good thing: Journalism, more than most institutions, would seem to benefit from self-scrutiny. But, trust me, it isn’t. Twitter opens a window into journalists’ minds and, often times, the view ain’t pretty.”(Thanks to alert WORDster Brenda Cooper)
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Twitter is getting on my nerves! After I read one story, get an opinion about it, and let the information sink in, 5 seconds later another tweet comes in but it's news that should not even be news! Homer Simpson's brain scan is a good depiction of some of the journalists brains.
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I hate Twitter. Twitter drove me out of journalism and into law school. Yah, it's that bad.
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