Accuracy in Media

Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan defended ESPN’s Jemele Hill’s tweets that called President Trump a white supremacist and said he was unqualified to be president. Hill’s halfhearted apology was good enough for Sullivan, said tweets from Trump and White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders were inappropriate. It is, for example, wildly inappropriate for […]

Liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who has a little over one million followers on Twitter, explained to his readers last week that he really can’t be bothered with the micr0-blogging service: One reason is that I have better things to do with my time. Another is that I don’t think my instant reactions […]

The Associated Press is showing just how tough it is for traditional media organizations to cope with the explosive growth of social media. Yesterday, for the third time in less than a year, the AP issued revised social media guidelines for its reporters. The AP first updated their guidelines in July when they encouraged journalists […]

The Associated Press, which recently updated its social media guidelines, sent out an email On Wednesday to remind employees just what those guidelines were in light of staff arrests at Zucotti Park on Tuesday. According to an email obtained by the Daily Intel, the AP was concerned about the employees in question violating the company’s […]

C-SPAN has joined the social media revolution by displaying tweets from members of Congress during breaks on some of its broadcasts. According to Adam Hochberg of Poynter, for the past several months C-SPAN2 has been displaying the Congressional tweets in real time during breaks in their Senate debate coverage. C-SPAN sees the tweets as just […]