Newsphobia: Twitter is not for lazy journalists
January 30th, 2009Posted by John Thompson in Editors' pick, Social media and blogging
Much as I hate people dictating how Twitter and other social media tools should be used, ‘Josh’ makes a good point about using Twitter for easy vox pops. Simply cutting and pasting Tweets that happen to fit the subject of whatever article you are writing is lazy journalism. It’s also a privacy issue. Full blog post…
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