http://www.current.org/2012/12/nprs-carvin-stands-by-twitter-coverage-of-newtown-shooting/ For people in public media Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:09:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://www.current.org/2012/12/nprs-carvin-stands-by-twitter-coverage-of-newtown-shooting/#comment-880 Greg Petersen Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:32:00 +0000 http://www.current.org/?p=26051#comment-880 While I can certainly appreciate this new way of reporting (what else can you call it but reporting if it emanates from a news source — in this case NPR) it gives me pause that crowd-sourcing is given so much credence. Some reports may indeed be true, and some, indeed, are false. It also gives me pause that in this methodology, “getting it first” appears to trump “getting it right.”

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