http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2009/05/19/patrick-swayze-and-the-limits-of-twitter-as-journalism/ About Online Culture and Fandom Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:08:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2009/05/19/patrick-swayze-and-the-limits-of-twitter-as-journalism/#comment-872 Mr. Smith Wed, 20 May 2009 17:47:36 +0000 http://thelearnedfangirl.com/?p=914#comment-872 The biggest problem with pointing to this or the Mumbai situation as a failing of Twitter as journalism is that Twitter - as you rightly state - is a tool. It isn't journalism anymore than a typewriter or computer is journalism. And just as I don't expect everyone who uses a typewriter or computer to turn out journalism, I don't expect that every Tweet will be journalistic. The biggest problem with pointing to this or the Mumbai situation as a failing of Twitter as journalism is that Twitter – as you rightly state – is a tool. It isn’t journalism anymore than a typewriter or computer is journalism. And just as I don’t expect everyone who uses a typewriter or computer to turn out journalism, I don’t expect that every Tweet will be journalistic.

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