Comments on: A visit to the A pool http://www.mediamum.net/2008/12/22/a-visit-to-the-a-pool/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-visit-to-the-a-pool It's Aussie for Mom Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:38:20 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mediamum http://www.mediamum.net/2008/12/22/a-visit-to-the-a-pool/comment-page-1/#comment-76 mediamum Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:08:56 +0000 http://mediamum.wordpress.com/?p=159#comment-76 Hi thanks for your comments! In answer to your question, professional journalists have dealt with the invasion of privacy issue when learning to adopt different reporting media. There is a respectable distance, for example, at funerals. You don't go into the chapel and stick the camera into the casket. You don't even run the camera inside the chapel at all. It would however be respectable for a newspaper journalist to sit in a rear pew and use pen/paper to take short notes to build a story with. Using Twitter is reporting using a different medium, and once again journalists are faced with a new range of media-centric nuances which need to be appreciated to ensure effective, responsible reporting. It's a lot like the difference between live TV and recorded TV. In the interests of the professionalism of the brand, professional journalists don't get to make mistakes without damaging their brands. Twitter is as live as it gets - and when that means the quality of the reporting is crappy then the brand suffers. Better not to do it at all. That said, there are some things that live TV offers which prerecorded can not. Journalists need to find those exciting capabilities with Twitter and use them to their benefit, to expand their professional toolkit and professional brands. Look forward to keeping in touch. Hi thanks for your comments! In answer to your question, professional journalists have dealt with the invasion of privacy issue when learning to adopt different reporting media. There is a respectable distance, for example, at funerals. You don’t go into the chapel and stick the camera into the casket. You don’t even run the camera inside the chapel at all. It would however be respectable for a newspaper journalist to sit in a rear pew and use pen/paper to take short notes to build a story with. Using Twitter is reporting using a different medium, and once again journalists are faced with a new range of media-centric nuances which need to be appreciated to ensure effective, responsible reporting.
It’s a lot like the difference between live TV and recorded TV. In the interests of the professionalism of the brand, professional journalists don’t get to make mistakes without damaging their brands. Twitter is as live as it gets – and when that means the quality of the reporting is crappy then the brand suffers. Better not to do it at all. That said, there are some things that live TV offers which prerecorded can not. Journalists need to find those exciting capabilities with Twitter and use them to their benefit, to expand their professional toolkit and professional brands.
Look forward to keeping in touch.

]]> By: toddnash http://www.mediamum.net/2008/12/22/a-visit-to-the-a-pool/comment-page-1/#comment-75 toddnash Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:53:15 +0000 http://mediamum.wordpress.com/?p=159#comment-75 Interested read...thanks for your comment drawing my attention to it. It does seem a tad insensitive to be tweeting a childs funeral - it raises the question of who actually wanted to read live updates of an event of this kind? Twitter is a little like liveblogging when reporting in this way - and I don't think a liveblog is an appropriate method of covering a funeral. On the other hand though, I remember a live-tweet of a high-profile court case, which was a very interesting experiment in reporting using social media. I find this a little troubling though: "NO: 1. When the use of Twitter (either through implementing the tool or the result) is perceived as a possible invasion of privacy. " What is the difference between using Twitter in a story that invades privacy to a more traditional way of reporting? The funeral would have been reported anyway, most likely in a more usual news story format. The only difference is the immediacy of the medium, no? Stay in touch. Interested read…thanks for your comment drawing my attention to it.

It does seem a tad insensitive to be tweeting a childs funeral – it raises the question of who actually wanted to read live updates of an event of this kind? Twitter is a little like liveblogging when reporting in this way – and I don’t think a liveblog is an appropriate method of covering a funeral.

On the other hand though, I remember a live-tweet of a high-profile court case, which was a very interesting experiment in reporting using social media.

I find this a little troubling though:

“NO:

1. When the use of Twitter (either through implementing the tool or the result) is perceived as a possible invasion of privacy. ”

What is the difference between using Twitter in a story that invades privacy to a more traditional way of reporting? The funeral would have been reported anyway, most likely in a more usual news story format. The only difference is the immediacy of the medium, no?

Stay in touch.

]]> By: Mark Pollard http://www.mediamum.net/2008/12/22/a-visit-to-the-a-pool/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Mark Pollard Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:49:35 +0000 http://mediamum.wordpress.com/?p=159#comment-74 Would love to read this! Will email you. Mark Would love to read this! Will email you.
Mark

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