"One cat just leads to another."
- Ernest Hemingway
Somehow something came along I can't do. Some kind of personality conflict with the medium, but I just don't get Twitter. Sure it is astoundingly fast at making new information public, and has surged like an overwhelming fountain over the olden days media, (Olden days start 10 years ago now). Newspapers are dropping like flies.. who needs treeware hardcopy of the news? People with pets? But still news is a valuable service no matter what the medium, and very talented, highly trained and courageous journalists make a living that way. How will they be paid if any paid news medium goes under? These people have to get paid.. we need them. We need responsible news sources that are held to the highest standard.
I don't think Twitter altogether can totally replace a single responsible news source for the latest newsflash. These are the people that are reading twitter, that are really into it, twidicted, I guess. They think it's fun. I just always find it painful, but maybe I just need to learn more about it until I get totally twidicted too. But why is it taking so long? Why don't I see the fun?
Well, I probably wouldn't if journalists hadn't picked right up on twitters to get a scoop. If twitter finds out the newsmedia will too because they're all over it. So the newsmedia has embraced Twitter. I still don't get it, it can only be precious few words and a link. It's like so in your face "SHUT UP!". No I shant. I shall have a Blog, thank you. So kind to point this out to me, Sir.
But the news media are welcome to read it for me, and just tell me what the latest thing from Twitter is. And wouldn't it be cool if I could take a break from the screen and read a newspaper, especially a local one that has all the big stories since print. And I can use it again ( I have five cats). If it gets to the point where a profit making enterprise that provides a public service becomes unsupportable, is when it should follow the strategy of open source but publicly supported news, like NPR news. I think the local newspaper has to be something delivered mostly online, but there is a market for newspapers that support local news in print, hopefully supplemented with the latest possible national news, that will not go away. Maybe following the model of NPR, nationwide networks reporting the news, only publicly and locally supported. Hm, probably a stupid idea.
Now that I can say all I want I suddenly have nothing else to say.
