http://www.bettylovesblogging.com/suicide-reporting-responsibility-and-twitter/ travel writings, rambles, meals and photography by australian ashlee betteridge Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:25:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://www.bettylovesblogging.com/suicide-reporting-responsibility-and-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-1698 Unspun Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:07:52 +0000 http://www.bettylovesblogging.com/?p=571#comment-1698 Thanks for the link. The trouble with social media is that everybody can become a publisher at a very low cost of entry - a mobile with data access - and most people do not have the grounding in journalistic principles of factual accuracy, sensibility and taste. I think the only viable solution is for the more established Tweeps to influence the Twittersphere to be more discretionary. Everything else - code of ethics, guidelines etc - will either fall on deaf ears to the social media masses and therefore - as you pointed out - unenforceable. Like your blog BTW Thanks for the link. The trouble with social media is that everybody can become a publisher at a very low cost of entry – a mobile with data access – and most people do not have the grounding in journalistic principles of factual accuracy, sensibility and taste. I think the only viable solution is for the more established Tweeps to influence the Twittersphere to be more discretionary. Everything else – code of ethics, guidelines etc – will either fall on deaf ears to the social media masses and therefore – as you pointed out – unenforceable. Like your blog BTW

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