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CNN Doesn't Like Talking About Internal Twitter Shakeup
CNN Debates Twitter's Relevance While Ignoring Important World Events Being Reported on Twitter

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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
06/18/09

In reply to CNN Doesn't Like Talking About Internal Twitter Shakeup
I didn't get CNNFail. I watched cnn that whole weekend (i was sick!) and they had great coverage. I think that ppl who participated in CNNFail weren't actually watching CNN.

and of course a legitimate news source can't just yank every 140 character breaking exclusive from twitter and put it on the air without it being substantiated - so, with the limited capabilities of television (as opposed to real-time updates from twitter and other social networking sites) in mind, I think the network did a pretty thorough job!
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El_Gato
06/17/09

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CNN has failed in its coverage -- if you can even call it that -- of Iran because for the past five years it's been hiring people based on the way they look and sound, not on their journalistic abilities.

As a result the only CNN person in Tehran is Christiane Amanpour, who got her job ages ago and would never have been hired today. As a result the network's "coverage" of the monumental events in Iran is a joke. The Daily Show did a good job of pointing that out on Tuesday night's show. Most of CNN's info is coming from Twitter. Which is just pathetic. It couldn't be any worse.
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mostlymartian
06/18/09

@El_Gato: The Daily Show has been making jokes about CNN's technology love for a while, it's their schtick for CNN. They were just continuing that. It wasn't some perceptive or particularly accurate observation in regard to their Iran coverage. CNN had Christiane already on the ground in Iran during the election. They have another guy on the ground there now too. They have had many excellent analyists discussing the events. The movement and access of journalists has been very restricted, so information from sources like twitter would be important no matter what.

Do you really think people like recent hire Fareed Zakaria are bimbos? CNN has lots of mediocre to plain looking people on camera and has kept them front and center when they could have been pushed to the side or dumped.
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metropolitan
06/15/09

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say what you want about CNN, howard kurtz, etc, they all need a good kick in the ass, but....

but if you guys are following the huffington post report in iran, which does have a lot of twitter info, they are constantly pointing out conflicting statements, false rumors, etc.

you can't report that plain clothes policemen are hezbolah until you have some proof.

while it's nice to have an alternative up to the minute source, it's not reliable and no serious news organization should base their reports on tweets from virtually anonymous people.

twitter is what it is, but it's not serious journalism.
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Weegee's bored
06/15/09

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CNN should have its criticism of Twitter's relevance reported by a hologram of Will.I.Am.
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mmstk101
06/15/09

@Weegee's bored: Just as long as it's not Fergie talking about her lovely lady tweets.
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badasscat
06/15/09

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If Twitter "reports" like the one above are where news is heading, then we're in big trouble. No context, no sources, no verification. I wonder how many of these Twitter updates are even true - no doubt many of them are based on rumor and hearsay. That doesn't help anybody.
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Weegee's bored
06/15/09

@badasscat: There's no such thing as reporting anymore. Everything you read is folk music without the dulcimer.
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britneyspearstears
06/15/09

@badasscat: There is no truth.
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limber
06/15/09

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I can't fall asleep tonight, just watching the Twitter fall for #IranElection. Part of me thinks this is totally amazing... but another part of me really, really hopes that the flaws of Twitter aren't doing damage in Iran.

I mean, right now I'm watching a cycling RT about this afternoon's 4pm rally being cancelled, which apparently was reported by the BBC, but there's a counter-flood of RTs saying that report is propaganda and everyone should hit the streets anyhow. So now we've got a BBC-sourced item that's being repeated, as well as an organic rumour(?) that's being repeated, and it all makes me very nervous when yet another tweet is saying that the militia have been issued live rounds and permission to use them.

Fingers crossed the worst doesn't end up happening. Though from this Canadian reporter's experience, there are already many, many men locked away in basements: [www.theglobeandmail.com]

(Canadian reporter not Jason Jones, though you've got to wonder how the Daily Show feels about their decision to send him to Iran now. Accidentally covering real news?)
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The Cajun Boy
06/15/09

@limber: I am very anxious to see how the Daily Show covers this. I'll be in awe if they can actually mine some comedy from this.
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