The core of journalists addicted to Twitter is what kept it important and what made what happened on Twitter (e.g. Trump saying stuff) into news. I never thought to blame journalists, but it now occurs to me that they sort of outsourced their job, thanks to
this post.
What blows my mind is the complete lack of self-awareness when journalist like Kai admit to relenquishing their editorial filter to a single corporate entity, wide open to not only corporate manipulation, but also from swarms of bots bought and paid, for the express intent of getting a story in front of them. And yet, even in the shadow of electing DJT president they didn’t learn their lesson. See, for example, this whiny piece of handwringing by Katie Notopoulos.
I’m a little bit more sensitive to this because journalism has a lot of funding problems, but New York Times reporters hooked on this stuff? Weak.