http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/22/social.networking.news/index.html
Okay, I will admit I cheated. We already talked about this specific event in our 201 class. This article is reported by CNN about twitter being the first to report about the plane crash in the Hudson river. A man took the picture on his iphone and sent it to twitter, and it was the "first" site to have information on the plane crash. CNN also raises a very important discussion on the phenomenon of people turning to social networking sites for breaking news. Also, these social networking sites give a personal account of the events.
This is an interesting development because our generation of "thinkers" are always looking for an unbias way to get our news. We want the news fast, and directly to our phone, pda, computer, and etc. For example, yesterday Obama signed the papers to close the prison camp in Cuba. I found out about that from my friends status on facebook. It read, blank "is happy about Guantanamo Bay Cuba.." I was like, hmmmm, what's going on there? So on my phone, I go from facebook to CNN to see what the heck is going on! And, well, I found out. The funny thing was, I don't watch TV very often, so, I probably would have never found out about it. It's not that politics doesn't interest me, I just don't get my news from TV anymore, I get it from facebook, twitter, and the internet while I'm on the go.
The progression of technology is taking a very interesting turn. We now look to convience of our news rather than the in-depthness of it. (if that is even a word..) Because things like facebook and twitter are for the most part an unbias reaction to current events, I think it is a very effective way to get our information in a speedy fashion.
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In what way does Facebook and Twitter provide unbiased reactions? I would think the reactions would be no more or less biased than other sources of news. It certainly is interesting that we are just as likely to find out about a breaking news story on Facebook than through television or newspapers. It's changing the life cycle of news. I would imagine the numbers of people watching the news has gone down, while the number of being getting their news online has gone up.
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