Comments on: Riveting Tragedy=Boring Twitter Debate

By: Michael Jackson is Dead, Jeff Goldblum is Alive. Can Twitter Tell the Difference? [MediaMemo] | TECHNICK

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:49:39 +0000

[...] Big day for Twitter yesterday. News broke, and people promptly turned to the service to spread the word. It’s a story that’s becoming increasingly familiar. [...]

By: Michael Jackson is Dead, Jeff Goldblum is Alive. Can Twitter Tell the Difference? [MediaMemo] | UpOff.com

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:27:26 +0000

[...] Big day for Twitter yesterday. News broke, and people promptly turned to the service to spread the word. It’s a story that’s becoming increasingly familiar. [...]

By: Michael Jackson is Dead, Jeff Goldblum is Alive. Can Twitter Tell the Difference? | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:01:01 +0000

[...] Big day for Twitter yesterday. News broke, and people promptly turned to the service to spread the word. It’s a story that’s becoming increasingly familiar. [...]

By: Twittering Inferno: “Holy Crap. This Is An Actual Fire” | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:58:58 +0000

[...] days, one of these “I’m Twittering live from the scene of something hair-raising or worse” incidents isn’t going to end well. Glad this one [...]

By: U.S. Airways Flight 1549, Twitter and an Amazing Photo [MediaMemo] | LinkTouch

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:19:28 +0000

[...] the bad-old MSM? It’d be great if we could skip that debate. Because it will be as boring as the one we had last month after the terrorist attacks in [...]

By: U.S. Airways Flight 1549, Twitter and An Amazing Photo | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:18:35 +0000

[...] the bad-old MSM? It’d be great if we could skip that debate. Because it will be as boring as the one we had last month after the terrorist attacks in [...]

By: Newest Media Cuts: Newsweek | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:44:17 +0000

[...] at least one media company employing actual reporters to go find out what happened — citizen journalists and Twitterers aren’t going to cut [...]

By: Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:10:31 +0000

I think both things are valuable, Jonathan. And there’s always hope that some outlets can figure out how to do both.

By: Sam Harrison

Sam Harrison — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:45:17 +0000

twitter is a group of people with zero to do who watch cnn and then claim to know something…gimme a break

By: Jonathan Marcus

Jonathan Marcus — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:13:47 +0000

Why the manically obsessive, win-at-all costs focus on breaking a story? Seems to be a mindset that has permeated the entire news industry. Thoughtful, substantive analysis surely holds more inherent value than the scoop itself.