http://www.mediacoolhunting.com/archives/dont-speak-point Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:46:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 http://www.mediacoolhunting.com/archives/dont-speak-point#comment-24 Media Cool Hunting » Blog Archive » Shooting the Shooting Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:12:40 +0000 http://www.mediacoolhunting.com/archives/dont-speak-point#comment-24 [...] One of the things the Virginia Tech massacre showed us, from a communication point of view, is the value Citizen Reporters may bring to news making and how today, sometimes, the journalist isn’t the fastest and most reliable news-sources: social networking sites (Via PicturePhonning), like Facebook or MySpace were. In such dramatic, unexpected and immediate situations, traditional media is increasingly adapting the role pointing and getting out of the way. [...] […] One of the things the Virginia Tech massacre showed us, from a communication point of view, is the value Citizen Reporters may bring to news making and how today, sometimes, the journalist isn’t the fastest and most reliable news-sources: social networking sites (Via PicturePhonning), like Facebook or MySpace were. In such dramatic, unexpected and immediate situations, traditional media is increasingly adapting the role pointing and getting out of the way. […]

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