Twitter journalism
Posted by Scott on Monday 18 May 2009 Categories: Media, The Internet Tags: journalism, SallyMorrell, Twitter |
Sally Morrell, the Herald Sun’s most stunningly vacuous columnist, hates Twitter.
I LOVE the net, like the blogs, and tolerate even Facebook for the teenagers. But Twitter is for the birds – and the birdbrained.
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But it’s now clear that “twit” was a noun just looking for a verb.
The beautiful irony? 18 out of the 25 paragraphs — a whopping 72% — in Sally’s “article” (the word “article” implies journalism so I put it in inverted commas) are under the 140 character limit for tweets, making Sally Australia’s best Twitter journalist. 140 character bursts of vapidity with no greater meaning or purpose, connected by not a single coherent idea. Perhaps it’s time to compile some more Sally stanzas.
