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Yes. Twitter is destroying classical media. Journalists claim to be neutral observers of reality, and when the only source of information you had about them was their short TV reports or newspaper articles, there was no other basis on which to disagree. People might have suspected some stories didn't get reported, or they might have occasionally read a story about something they knew a lot about and realized it was biased, but there was no solid way to prove bias.

But now for years they have all been on Twitter and it is suddenly plain to see. Freed from the rules and conventions of their professional medium, they spot nonsense on Twitter and show just how poor their understand truly is. The illusion of impartiality is impossible to sustain like this, which is why the BBC has tried restricting journalists from Twitter, but it's just impossible. They can't stay away, and their credibility declines with every tweet they make.



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