If it's something important from someone important, sure. But in that case the story is "Important person X said important thing Y in a tweet on Z date". The tweet is just the source. What I'm objecting to is the tired cookie cutter articles that boil down to "Person the writer doesn't like said something the writer doesn't like, and here are a bunch of Twatter randos 'calling him out'", often with inane commentary after each tweet. Ted Cruz is a particularly frequent target of this retardation for some reason.
In many contexts it does. I'm just saying that far too often journalists act like a bunch of terminally online losers agreeing with them means anything.
I really wish right wing outlets would stop copying MSM trash by reporting on tweets and other social media.
Love it or hate it, tweets are news. Politics today unfolds on twitter in real time.
If it's something important from someone important, sure. But in that case the story is "Important person X said important thing Y in a tweet on Z date". The tweet is just the source. What I'm objecting to is the tired cookie cutter articles that boil down to "Person the writer doesn't like said something the writer doesn't like, and here are a bunch of Twatter randos 'calling him out'", often with inane commentary after each tweet. Ted Cruz is a particularly frequent target of this retardation for some reason.
like it or not twitter matters a lot
In many contexts it does. I'm just saying that far too often journalists act like a bunch of terminally online losers agreeing with them means anything.