-Staff journalists don’t get paid to tweet, but to produce content for our brands.
-There are lotsa downsides to breaking news by tweet (but contextualizing it means getting “scooped” by someone just tweeting it out)
-Non-journos are out here tweeting like they’re journos anyway
I limited replies to this bc last bullet point is guaranteed, on this hell site, to get misconstrued as snooty credentialism. That’s not what I mean. I mean specific folk who act as if they’re breaking news, w/o any structure for accountability for if they are wrong or spinning.
Anyway, everyone in my profession AND everyone on this website needs to recalibrate what they expect in the pace/intensity/digestibility of news in the post-Trump-Admin era, that is all.
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