It's poison for the career of traditional media also. News consumers no longer need the journalist middle man, they can go directly to the source of the news.

It's poison for the career of traditional media also. News consumers no longer need the journalist middle man, they can go directly to the source of the news. Journalists should now, more than ever, be focused on traditional journalistic efforts. Succumbing to the temptation to just "find a story on Twitter" is just cementing the fact traditional media is dead and the era of the citizen journalist is here.