Archive for June 14th, 2009
Breaking News is on Twitter, Not the MSM
Iran exploded in violence this weekend, but the breaking news on that was on Twitter, ot CNN or MSNBC (I don’t even acknowledge FOX as a nedia source). I got into blogging because I wanted to work towards effecting change, but the goodpeople on twitter are shaping things up through social media microblogging. When the MSM networks decided to take the weekend off, Twitterers from Iran to California started pressuring CNN for coverage through using the hashtag #cnnfail. As you can see from the New York Times article referenced here, socialmedia is leaving the media behind and exposing the media for the useless corporate-driven nonentities that they have become.
It is now time to jump on social media or get left behind. I say join and let’s change the world one tweet at a time. 
