http://eyeonwiner.org/archives/2009/dave-finally-comments-on-radio-payola Keeping an eye on Dave Winer Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:41:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://eyeonwiner.org/archives/2009/dave-finally-comments-on-radio-payola/comment-page-1#comment-1762 curtis Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:49:00 +0000 http://eyeonwiner.org/?p=480#comment-1762 <p>There is a link between Dave's continued quixotic crusade to promote the idea of Twitter-as-the-only-legitimate-news-source and his problems with the Twitter SUL. See, only if you accept the premise that Twitter is primarily a journalistic outfit can you make the claim that the SUL represents a conflict of interest. After all, if its just the incoherent 140-character babblings of the masses, what's to complain about if one user is "given" 10k followers? So what if they don't Tweet critically about Twitter because they feel obligated? The <em>only</em> reason a conflict exists is if tweeting carries some artificial burden of journalistic integrity. It does not, which is why Dave's insistence that it does makes so little sense when applied to the real world.</p> There is a link between Dave’s continued quixotic crusade to promote the idea of Twitter-as-the-only-legitimate-news-source and his problems with the Twitter SUL. See, only if you accept the premise that Twitter is primarily a journalistic outfit can you make the claim that the SUL represents a conflict of interest. After all, if its just the incoherent 140-character babblings of the masses, what’s to complain about if one user is “given” 10k followers? So what if they don’t Tweet critically about Twitter because they feel obligated? The only reason a conflict exists is if tweeting carries some artificial burden of journalistic integrity. It does not, which is why Dave’s insistence that it does makes so little sense when applied to the real world.

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