Mike Wise’s goal of discrediting Twitter as a legitimate news source doomed from start
dcist |
Sept. 1, 2010 8:10 a.m.
"Washington Post sports columnist Mike Wise tried to make a statement about the way that we consume media in the social media age," Aaron Morrisey writes, adding, "For that, he's reportedly been suspended from his job for a month. The lesson: no one is bigger than the medium. What made Wise's experiment so strange is that it was such a losing proposition: by knowingly breaking false news, Wise was either banking that he didn't have the kind of influence that a prominent reporter at one of the world's largest newspapers should have, or was willing to sell some (all?) of his credibility down the toilet in order to take a swing at the validity of Twitter as a news-gathering source. . . .Wise's goal of discrediting Twitter as a legitimate source for breaking news was doomed, because it already is one." || Dave Levy: Wise's stunt jeopardized credibility. Here. 
