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Originally Posted by Jay Random
If you're good at the job, you can report the story in a way that communicates what you feel without ever directly saying it.
If you're really bad at the job, you just report what you feel and never even mention the facts. This is what people usually do on Twitter. Every one of the tweets linked in the post I was responding to was a personal statement of opinion in emotionally charged language. That isn't journalism.
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I think we're getting into semantics here, but my initial response wasn't that these tweets are journalism - just that they are all known/respected journalists/writers in their field and that they took issue. While I certainly agree twitter isn't the best gauge of public opinion, I just wanted to point out to EE that it's not just sheep screaming into the void.