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.
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