http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2009/05/19/patrick-swayze-and-the-limits-of-twitter-as-journalism/ a critical take on online culture and social media Sun, 20 May 2012 18:33:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2009/05/19/patrick-swayze-and-the-limits-of-twitter-as-journalism/#comment-136 Mr. Smith Wed, 20 May 2009 17:47:36 +0000 http://thelearnedfangirl.com/?p=914#comment-136 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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