Steve Buttry: Yet another Twitter rant by a journalist who doesn’t understand it
May 29th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Social media and blogging
“It’s ok to be sick and tired of Twitter rants by journalists who don’t understand it,” writes Steve Buttry.
“The same day I posted about Edward Wasserman writing about Twitter without really learning about it, I read another piece from another journalist I respect, Paul Farhi of the Washington Post, writing The Twitter Explosion in the American Journalism Review.
“Farhi, to his credit, did a fairly thorough job of researching Twitter by reading about it online and by interviewing journalists who use it. He just didn’t bother, from what I can tell, to learn anything firsthand by actually using it. And his writing revealed his ignorance.”
Tags: ed wasserman, Edward Wasserman, journalist, Paul Farhi, steve buttry, the American Journalism Review, The Washington Post, Twitter, Washington
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