So many ways that Twitter creates problems.
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Like so many things, maybe they should ask themselves “What would I be using this for, and what if it were mis-used?”…before jumping in?
I thought people got over the ‘cool new stuff’ kick in the dot-com bust…my error
(So sez the dood with a Titter acct, who doesn’t tweet)
Twitter can actually do more harm then good. When the Swine Flu issue came up, the twitter world was tweeting stuff that wasn’t true and caused massive panic in the public.
It seems almost child-like to think you’re only sharing an off-hand remark with 90 or so “friends” when you publish a comment on a publicly accessible network.
What’s childlike is the insistence on the fiction that journalists, unlike every other human being, have no opinions of their own.
Frankly, I think it would probably be better if we knew the personal views of the people whose reportage we make use of. There’s always going to be some bias, reporters being only human, and humans being incapable of being entirely unbiased. I’d prefer to know what that bias is up front, instead of having to try to guess at it.
I don’t think I’ve ever known anyone who thought journalists were less biased than the rest of us. Media consumers have always chosen their sources based on their slant. Of course, media used to pretend to some kind of standard of professionalism, to just reporting facts. But, I think most people have always been aware of how information is filtered and distorted by whatever source is distributing it. “Most people” doesn’t include Faux News viewers, of course… 😉
how can you not be biased against the b.s. the GOP spews?
wapo: proof positive that there’s more truth to the peter principle than fiction.
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In this high-tech society it’s di rigueur for politicians to have a presence in the social media Web sites. A politician who doesn’t tweet or have a Facebook page will quickly wither on the vine.
But Palin is the only politician of note who relies almost exclusively on the Internet to get her message out. There are a few reasons for Palin’s slavish reliance on social media to stay relevant.
Palin is grammatically-impaired to put it kindly, but this isn’t a liability in cyber space where non-standard abbreviations, misspellings, and non-sequiturs are the norm. The Internet is the perfect milieu for an ignoramus like the former governor of Alaska.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."True dat – but I doubt she even writes her own Facebook updates.
if she wrote all this by herself .. full sentences and complete citations? Yah, doubtin’ it…
Someone could learn how to spell de rigueur, if they’re going to get all hotsy totsy on us.
I LOL’ed at this part:
Who need tweets for ammunition? Scanning the Village Post itself on any given day — any day — provides far more such ammunition (aka “evidence”) than any handful of tweets could.
Check this out. Time for a blogger ethics panel.
Suck it, Boo…My team was on the short end of that 24-0 score that you mentioned! Rebuilding year, indeed!
Oops…Wrong casual observation! See what my team blowing out their ass does to my mental state?
Number one: on Twitter it’s impossible to DELETE an account. Only the company itself can do it.
Number two: on Twitter if your account is private, nobody else can read what you write outside of your approved “friends”.
Therefore, the deletion is a special occurrence AND one of his “friends” was clearly snitching him out.
Pax