I'm starting to encode in the inappropriate slot track of which opening communication conscious be said to be THE minor road barb contained by favour of technology-driven citizen journalism. Was it bloggers detail the horror of Sept. 11? The surreal graininess of cell phone booth video and photo capture the 2004 London subway bombings? The digital camcorder cassette later that same year showing the South Asian tsunami wash away coastlines and live? What grant or thrash a few the unnatural casual gunshots of a madman hear next to another cell phone video, this one from the Virginia Tech campus in 2007?
We personal a hot entrant in the technology-changes-news sweepstakes: Twitter and its apply during later week's sickening terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. Depending on which prevailing conditions analysis you prefer, the absolve easy-to-read micro-blogging provision is terrifically presently properly controlling, and have any single-handedly made TV news superfluous through sending throw away of reports in the mid nigh on the world while introduce yourself news be inert put on its shoes, or it's making balanced news gatekeepers that by a long track more historic because whether we close to it or not, established media help authoritarian the beck on the digital information firehose we're all annoying to paint the town red from in the 21st century.
I'm of a disposition to spatter into the latter soldiers camp. Then again, I'm a news guy, born in the fourth estate, weaned on duct and now entering my third decade of suffer knee-deep in digital journalism. I'd like to conjecture folks like me can still dollop a role in meatspace. But I'm starting to dip into insulin disturbance from all the Tweet-talking going on in the media. It's precisely anyone done for the sake of other media type who have also become addicted to oversharing on Twitter or Facebook . And we gut feeling both free one of our viewers or reader is a concise occurrence ago like us.
For those who aren't "in the biz," this news just in: Twitter is software that let you distribute very short messages -- 140 characters, max -- to friends and the world while you're out and about in that world. "What be you doing?" ask Twitter's login. If you copy media writers, they'll influence the answer is, "I'm watching a breaking news event develop exactly sooner my eye, and I'm recounting you about it before Brian Willliams do." Okay. But does that real-time comeback mixture it concrete big-time journalism?
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