Charles and Corey are joined by guest pundit and local news producer Nate Hoekstra. The three take a look at the ramifications of social media in the reporting of news in the aftermath of the Iranian elections. Just how does one separate the signal from so much noise? Is that now the role of news organizations? CNN seems to think so.
Despite being lambasted with the #CNNfail hash tag for their initial lack of coverage of protests in Tehran, CNN turned up the socialmedia-ometer to report news from Twitter and Facebook it couldn’t readily confirm.
Did you turn your Twitter avatar green? Corey wonders if it was a sign of solidarity or meme for Birkenstock wearing Berkley college kids.
Michigan Representative Pete Hoekstra took some kidding for his tweet that compared the plight of protesters in Tehran to that of Republicans in the House last year.
And in the end, Corey calls for a move away from Twitter as too closed a platform for this evolving form of micro-communication. The revolution, he says, should not be tweeted.