January 21, 2008
SMS Twitter Reporting For The Presidential Elections
Ana Marie Cox of Time.com and Marc Ambinder, a political blogger for The Atlantic, have joined Slate's John Dickerson in using Twitter to report on the US presidential election, reports The New York Times via Moco News.
"Some might consider the idea of a barrage of text-messaged snippets about the presidential election the final dreadful realization of the news media’s obsession with “sound bites.” And spending time with the Twittered campaign reporting can mean wallowing in skin-deep observations, anonymous trashing of candidates and more than you would want to know about the food and travel conditions for the reporting class.
But it is genuine, and at times enlightening, which is more than you can say for the candidates themselves, who have also taken to using Twitter to update their supporters."
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