Chris O'Brien at PBS's Idea Lab asks the kind of questions that will determine the future of news rooms: "[W]ho had the first tweet on the [LA] earthquake?" The answer was Caroline (Vixy) who posted the word "earthquake" before anyone else in the whole damn world. We were all too distracted following that wily, undead Subway Jared's every move. You want to know where new media is headed? I'll tell you where it's headed: "Dude, I just tweeted genocide." [Ideas Lab]

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