It’s a love-hate relationship right up there with dysfunctional parents du jour Jon and Kate; the media has a middle-school crush on Twitter, and the media is the first to say nasty things about Twitter while Twitter is in study hall. Some of its members are using a helluva lot more than 140 characters to do their damage. The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd and “Doonesbury” cartoonist Garry Trudeau are just two of the better-known Pulitzer winners to dip their respective pens in a big bowl o’ snark to eviscerate the short-messaging service.
"I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery."
An interesting comparism - surgery and journalism. Placed on a desert island (call me crazy) and given the choice, I will bring along a surgeon before the journalist is given the invite.
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It's Time to Push Back Against Twitter Backlash
Posted by: Renay San Miguel May 29, 2009 08:30 AMIt’s a love-hate relationship right up there with dysfunctional parents du jour Jon and Kate; the media has a middle-school crush on Twitter, and the media is the first to say nasty things about Twitter while Twitter is in study hall. Some of its members are using a helluva lot more than 140 characters to do their damage. The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd and “Doonesbury” cartoonist Garry Trudeau are just two of the better-known Pulitzer winners to dip their respective pens in a big bowl o’ snark to eviscerate the short-messaging service.
An interesting comparism - surgery and journalism. Placed on a desert island (call me crazy) and given the choice, I will bring along a surgeon before the journalist is given the invite.