The event Sutherland was covering was students protesting Quebec's tuition hikes, but then spiraled out of control after her inappropriate tweets.
Social Media has become more of the story than the actual reporting. The lack of supervision by social media is harming the reputation of the journalism field. It causualizing Journalism, making journalist lose their attention to accuracy and objectivity.
How do you think that News Organizations should handle the new issues that present itself now that social media has become such a medium for journalists? Do you think that social media should casualize journalism as a whole?
There is a way of "casualizing" journalism without making it inappropriate. Most news organizations have social media guidelines for journalists, and journalists should take these seriously. It is alright for tweets to be subjective, because they inevitably will be. However, Anne Sutherland's tweets don't provide any news or content, they just spread slander.
ReplyDeleteThe worst about these tweets are not the pictures I think, it's her comments that are just super inappropriate. There is nothing journalistic about being offensive.
ReplyDeleteLike Maddy says I think there are many ways to casualize the news without being offensive or inappropriate. I think the first picture could be used with a different comment. As far as guidelines are concerned, apparently they are needed, you would think that with some common sense someone wouldn't put that up, but it seems like rules need to be laid out about it and maybe before it's posted they should pass an editor.