Comments on: Consider the journalism on Twitter, not whether Twitter is journalism http://www.notes.hypercrit.net/2009/11/consider-the-journalism-on-twitter-not-whether-twitter-is-journalism/ Your source for Montana State University athletics Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:58:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Michael Becker http://www.notes.hypercrit.net/2009/11/consider-the-journalism-on-twitter-not-whether-twitter-is-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-1235 Michael Becker Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:45:07 +0000 http://www.notes.hypercrit.net/?p=171#comment-1235 Twitter moves too fast. Levels of editing that have been built into journalism for a century get thrown out the window. <br><br>The goal becomes immediacy, and accuracy become less important. I think that's because Twitter isn't a "newspaper of record." In 20 years, no one is going to be looking at Twitter for information about the past.<br><br>But reporters and journalists are stuck in the mentality that everything they write will have the critical eye of history glaring down at it. They are attached to their words in a way that the so-called digital natives aren't. Twitter moves too fast. Levels of editing that have been built into journalism for a century get thrown out the window.

The goal becomes immediacy, and accuracy become less important. I think that's because Twitter isn't a “newspaper of record.” In 20 years, no one is going to be looking at Twitter for information about the past.

But reporters and journalists are stuck in the mentality that everything they write will have the critical eye of history glaring down at it. They are attached to their words in a way that the so-called digital natives aren't.

]]> By: Michael Becker http://www.notes.hypercrit.net/2009/11/consider-the-journalism-on-twitter-not-whether-twitter-is-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-1236 Michael Becker Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:45:07 +0000 http://www.notes.hypercrit.net/?p=171#comment-1236 Twitter moves too fast. Levels of editing that have been built into journalism for a century get thrown out the window. <br><br>The goal becomes immediacy, and accuracy become less important. I think that's because Twitter isn't a "newspaper of record." In 20 years, no one is going to be looking at Twitter for information about the past.<br><br>But reporters and journalists are stuck in the mentality that everything they write will have the critical eye of history glaring down at it. They are attached to their words in a way that the so-called digital natives aren't. Twitter moves too fast. Levels of editing that have been built into journalism for a century get thrown out the window.

The goal becomes immediacy, and accuracy become less important. I think that's because Twitter isn't a “newspaper of record.” In 20 years, no one is going to be looking at Twitter for information about the past.

But reporters and journalists are stuck in the mentality that everything they write will have the critical eye of history glaring down at it. They are attached to their words in a way that the so-called digital natives aren't.

]]> By: lucythorpe http://www.notes.hypercrit.net/2009/11/consider-the-journalism-on-twitter-not-whether-twitter-is-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-1233 lucythorpe Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:17:53 +0000 http://www.notes.hypercrit.net/?p=171#comment-1233 BBC news people and other established news figures as quoted in Alf's article only seem comfortable when talking about twitter as a tool, something they can use. To get them to engage with Twitter as a mass medium or journalism-in- the- raw appears to be too uncomfortabel for them. Do they choose cynicism and disdain instead because they feel threatened ? BBC news people and other established news figures as quoted in Alf's article only seem comfortable when talking about twitter as a tool, something they can use. To get them to engage with Twitter as a mass medium or journalism-in- the- raw appears to be too uncomfortabel for them. Do they choose cynicism and disdain instead because they feel threatened ?

]]> By: lucythorpe http://www.notes.hypercrit.net/2009/11/consider-the-journalism-on-twitter-not-whether-twitter-is-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-1230 lucythorpe Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:17:53 +0000 http://www.notes.hypercrit.net/?p=171#comment-1230 BBC news people and other established news figures as quoted in Alf's article only seem comfortable when talking about twitter as a tool, something they can use. To get them to engage with Twitter as a mass medium or journalism-in- the- raw appears to be too uncomfortabel for them. Do they choose cynicism and disdain instead because they feel threatened ? BBC news people and other established news figures as quoted in Alf's article only seem comfortable when talking about twitter as a tool, something they can use. To get them to engage with Twitter as a mass medium or journalism-in- the- raw appears to be too uncomfortabel for them. Do they choose cynicism and disdain instead because they feel threatened ?

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