Mathew Ingram: French journalists’ social media experiment is a ‘farce’
January 25th, 2010Posted by Judith Townend in Broadcasting, Editors' pick, Online Journalism, Social media and blogging
Mathew Ingram is sceptical about an experiment in which five French journalists intend to limit their sources to social media for a week.
Put simply, the French project is a farce and a sideshow. All it risks “proving” is that some journalists – and their masters (the experiment is being sponsored by the French public broadcasting association) – are as clueless as anyone else about Twitter or Facebook and how those services can benefit journalism.
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March 2nd, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Thank you!
I am happy, not to be the only one with that opinion. You can follow all majour news outlets via twitter and facebook – just like on the web. Details of my critique:
http://sonncomonlinemarketing.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/what-is-twitter-search-blog/#frenchbigbrotherexperiment