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“Twitter is a wonderful tool which, like any tool, can be used or abused”

"Twitter is not killing journalism, journalists are killing journalism," Tim McGuire writes, reviewing the ongoing discussion of the positives and negatives of the social media tool as used in the profession. McGuire details a recent give-and-take between George Packer of the New Yorker and Nick Bilton of the NewYork Times on the issue, before concluding that "Increasingly, we see reporters using Twitter to broadcast single-sourced stories. Worse, other tweeters then follow these single-sourced tweets. . . . The key here is not to demonize Twitter. Twitter is a wonderful tool which, like any tool, can be used or abused."
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