Paul Constant Reviews_Has Twitter changed the world? Has it changed journalism? Has it changed writing? Is it necessary? Is it ever going to stop?

Paul Constant Reviews Twitter

by Paul Constant

In breaking news, eyewitness reports are almost always more valuable and interesting than a journalist's accounts.

Watching New Yorkers tell their stories on 9/11 was more compelling, more real, than anything else CNN could relay.

Most viewers would rather follow the bearded biker who shouts, "It came out of nowhere!" than return to the smiling, phony telejournalist.

We're telling each other stories, 140 characters at a time, as they unfold. If you can't see the value in that, you're hopeless.

There are plenty of people who claim Twitter is stupid and pointless, that it's a ridiculous fad for bored, oversharing white kids. (...)

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