Twitter, Accuracy & Journalism: Qantas QF32 Example - 0 views
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Roland Gesthuizen on 06 Nov 10"Just as newsrooms were starting to stir with the rumoured explosion of a Qantas plane off Indonesia, and journalists began making calls to hotels on the island of Batam, Twitter was recording thousands of versions of what might have happened. "
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Roland Gesthuizen on 06 Nov 10Some fascinating things to consider in this media article between informal twitter users and formal journalists as the social networking tide sweeps across the story to lift it gently onto the beach. What really happened, when and where is the real news?