http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2009/04/26/swine-flu-on-twitter/ Entertainment and Tech Digest Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:18:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2009/04/26/swine-flu-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-30242 backpacks luggage Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:15:11 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/?p=5033#comment-30242 The Foreign Policy mandarins do not seem to consider that the general public have the ability to work out for themselves how real the Tweets are and how much to take them at face value. Anyone who takes an interest in any media nowadays will know that sensationalism is the name of the game and truth and factual reporting takes a seat at the very far end of an exceptionally long stretch limo. That brings me on to my issue about ‘free speech’. Of course, free speech is an absolute necessity but it should limited to un-sensationalised facts and verifiable truths. But that’s a whole subject on its own. Perhaps you’ll do a piece on that one day? The Foreign Policy mandarins do not seem to consider that the general public have the ability to work out for themselves how real the Tweets are and how much to take them at face value. Anyone who takes an interest in any media nowadays will know that sensationalism is the name of the game and truth and factual reporting takes a seat at the very far end of an exceptionally long stretch limo. That brings me on to my issue about ‘free speech’. Of course, free speech is an absolute necessity but it should limited to un-sensationalised facts and verifiable truths. But that’s a whole subject on its own. Perhaps you’ll do a piece on that one day?

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