Posted on 06/21/2009 11:40:29 AM PDT by balls
Political revolutions are often closely linked to communication tools. The American Revolution wasn’t caused by the proliferation of pamphlets, written to whip colonists into a frenzy against the British. But it sure helped.
Social networking, a distinctly 21st-century phenomenon, has already been credited with aiding protests from the Republic of Georgia to Egypt to Iceland. And Twitter, the newest social-networking tool, has been identified with two mass protests in a matter of months — in Moldova in April and in Iran last week, when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to oppose the official results of the presidential election.
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6. Twitter Can Be a Potent Tool for Media Criticism
Just as Twitter can rally protesters against governments, its broadcast ability can rally them quickly and efficiently against news outlets. One such spontaneous protest was given the tag #CNNfail, using Internet slang to call out CNN last weekend for failing to have comprehensive coverage of the Iranian protests. This was quickly converted to an e-mail writing campaign. CNN was forced to defend its coverage in print and online.
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Go Talk Radio!
Switched back and forth from Fox News; just to see what CNN was saying re the Iranians; incredible. . .CNN looked like there were in the middle of a Communication ‘how to’ lesson. They were bad. . .really bad. But no surprises, mind you.
How utterly astonishing that the NYT, whose stock is eagerly plunging into Davy Jones’ locker, is bashing Twitter, which is taking to the sky like a homesick Angel.... /sarcasm
Right; and I've learned not to believe any political news unless from two different sources that don't use the same AP/NYT Stringer!
#NYTFAIL !!!
The great thing about Twitter in the Iran situation is the speed at which it has relayed raw information directly from the scene. I’ve been following the Iran situation for a few days and have gotten the news long before it hits the tv or radio news.
Sure there are some tweets that try to spread false information, but how is that different from the networks? Now it’s so easy to collect the news yourself and then separate the wheat from the chaff.
Anybody who does not check Twitter these days has their head in the sand.
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