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Leaked WaPo Memo Underscores Twitter’s Corrosive Impact On Newsrooms
The Federalist ^ | June 9, 2020 | Emily Jashinsky

Posted on 06/09/2020 2:16:05 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 06/09/2020 2:16:05 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Twitter has great information on it—for a few minutes before the censors shut it down!


2 posted on 06/09/2020 2:19:00 PM PDT by cgbg (Kneeling is a half measure--lefties need to dig a six foot hole and bury themselves in it.)
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To: Kaslin

Look at the language they are using in the articles, and the lack of good grammar. Also to spelling errors.

It all reads like it was made for, and derived from, Twitter.


3 posted on 06/09/2020 2:19:28 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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These hacks were insufferable enough but magnified through a narrow lens of the liberal Twittersphere, they are now completely useless to people like me.


4 posted on 06/09/2020 2:23:07 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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"I’ve always thought it would make sense for newsrooms to design policies that let Twitter’s ability to deliver news shine, and mitigate other activity. Let reporters tweet headlines and breaking information. That’s it. Twitter would still be a great place to get news. Reporters would still be able to promote their work. But keeping spats and chats and personal conversations off the platform would make it less tempting for journalists to refresh Tweetdeck all day, chasing likes and retweets, overexposing themselves to industry perspectives and stories with little external relevance."

Also, stop reporting tweets as if they are news. I am long tired of reading "news articles" that simply relate what some people tweeted. Simple rule of thumb, nothing that happens on Twitter is news until it happens in the real world.

5 posted on 06/09/2020 2:26:54 PM PDT by mlo
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Come on you brave firefighters, go get the truth, not the Twitter truth, but the real truth.

But you wont because you are all cowards.


6 posted on 06/09/2020 2:29:19 PM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: Kaslin

Twitter = Twaddle


7 posted on 06/09/2020 2:31:29 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (uff)
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To: Kaslin

Imbeciles all.


8 posted on 06/09/2020 2:33:33 PM PDT by sauropod (Quarantine is when you restrict sick people, tyranny is when you restrict healthy people.)
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To: Kaslin; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ...

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9 posted on 06/09/2020 2:41:48 PM PDT by bitt (I shall not kneel for any person. Nor do I expect anybody to kneel for me.)
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On the one hand, I would love for Twitter to just go away, but on the other, no Republican President has ever had the ability to reach the whole nation. If we had an honest media, he wouldn’t need TWitter...


10 posted on 06/09/2020 2:43:23 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: antidemoncrat

Modern day Gossip Line.


11 posted on 06/09/2020 2:48:29 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: NohSpinZone

Remember last year, when the Freepers, who suffered the most from TDS, Trolled in vain 24/7 to stop Trump from using Twitter.

Trump using Twitter just awful in their total TDS 24/7 mental illness.

The deep staters, who paid these trolls to trash our president were seeing how candidate Trump in their private focus groups was gaining strength everyday via his Twitters.

So each day until Jim took them off the board, those trolls were like the Japanese Kamikaze’s in the last few weeks before the Nov 2016 election.

We can expect to see the same BS about how dumb president Trump and we are, from these deep state whores, 24/7.

They will whine about how his use of the mediots, on line media and on twitter is so inappropriate for a president.

They will wear out that mantra until President Trump wins his second term.

The more we see/hear of this bs from the mediots and trolls, that is a sure sign that Trump is shredding their side in the focus groups and in any real polls.


12 posted on 06/09/2020 2:52:14 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Who Decides: Who and What Is Essential and Which Lives Matter? - June 8, 2020 by| Allen West)
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To: Kaslin

Twitter has tons of real tons.

Something the Fake News hates.


13 posted on 06/09/2020 2:53:18 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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I need to preview.

Twitter has tons of real NEWS.

Something the Fake News, headed by WaPo, hates.


14 posted on 06/09/2020 2:54:56 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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one of the world’s preeminent news outlets

What!

The WaPo is garbage.

Why the Washington Post Has No Credibility

15 posted on 06/09/2020 3:08:03 PM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: mlo

I have seen far too many news articles that basically just link to someone’s tweet that is not even verified or include any information to verify it such as pictures or video to prove what they are saying.


16 posted on 06/09/2020 3:09:36 PM PDT by matt04
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“I am long tired of reading “news articles” that simply relate what some people tweeted.”

The first one lies about it, the rest swear to it.

Like the barbershop mirrors reflecting back and forth.


17 posted on 06/09/2020 3:36:23 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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WaPOOH reporting @Jack’s fake news? Who would’ve thought!
18 posted on 06/09/2020 5:32:49 PM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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Whenever I see a news article with a Tweet as source, I move on.

I bet they even teach Twitter as news in JournoSchool these days. Pathetic.


19 posted on 06/09/2020 5:59:45 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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What is the WaPo business Model these days?

$$$ ——> Amazon -——> WaPo?

What do the WaPo care?

Let the Twitter Frenzy continue, with Trump at the top.


20 posted on 06/09/2020 6:38:13 PM PDT by Paladin2
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