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People will disagree with me, but I don't think blogging will ever replace fully-researched journalism. Twitter and blogs can easily break new news. "Osama Has
by kloncks 15y ago
People will disagree with me, but I don't think blogging will ever replace fully-researched journalism.
Twitter and blogs can easily break new news. "Osama Has Been Killed", for example. And that's absolutely important and helpful. But for analysis, I just can't see a blog or 140-characters competing with a full team on The New Yorker or The Economist. The "what does this mean", "how will this affect things", etc will not be answered as well by always-on designed to be fast and instant news sources.
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There are ways for major broadcasters to keep up with real-time. But I don't know of the perfect way. I do, however, believe it's not the CNN-approach of consistently reading tweets on their shows.
- JackWebbHeller 15y agoWhy do you believe it's not the CNN-approach?
- kloncks 15y agoTelevision needs to do more, not merely clone (rather badly) a Twitter stream. There are strengths television has and online doesn't. And vice versa.
- JackWebbHeller 15y agoI see - I misunderstood your CNN-approach thing, thinking you meant reading tweets about their shows (on Twitter.com or something), whoops. I don't get CNN in the UK (CNNi but that's different) so I'm not too familiar, but I agree that that's not really the best way of 'getting social'...