> journalists looking at Twitter and either a) using that as a stand-in for 'this is what the public think' or b) making it the story itself. I'm surprised th

> journalists looking at Twitter and either a) using that as a stand-in for 'this is what the public think' or b) making it the story itself. I'm surprised that you say that the main culprit is the main stream media. I see this kind of reporting in all news outlets, especially non-MSM. It's cheap and trivial to write an article that highlights some comments from four people with 15 twitter followers a piece, and claim that "People are saying". You even hear the POTUS frequently use "people are saying" and then quoting whackadoos from Twitter. Can we really hold MSM to a higher standard than the president of the free world?