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News Experiment To Rely Only On Facebook, Twitter
snydeq writes "With a setup ripped right out of a reality show — or, perhaps more fittingly, The Shining — a French-language public broadcasters association will put five journalists in a French farmhouse for five days, giving them no access to newspapers, television, radio, or the Internet, save Facebook and Twitter, to see how much world news they can report. The reporters will report this news on a communal blog. 'Our aim is to show that there are different sources of information and to look at the legitimacy of each of these sources,' said France Inter editor Helene Jouan. 'This experiment will enable us to take a hard look at all the myths that exist about Facebook and Twitter.'"
They get up to the second updates on the world of Pop Entertainment via Twitter
They get a confusingly clouded understanding of what happens in the worlds of politics via everyones facebook rantings.
dreaming up "news" on their own? somebody get a Predator warmed up, we got a target... .
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
This just in, the International Space Station was recently equipped with full internet access.
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Jacques could really use some help fertilizing their crops in FarmVille!
Renee just found some Treasured Golden Mystery Eggs and wants to say thank you!
Their first story will probably be that they've killed themselves.
That would probably be my reaction, anyway.
So well see news like this?:
In breaking news, Rob admitted he cheated on Katie, but Katie has dumped Rob, changed her status to single, and Mike is hitting on Katie on her wall hoping for a rebound hookup... Michelle is also flirting with Katie, and Katies friends are calling Rob a pig. Rob has threatened Katie with 'those pics'. We'll keep you updated as news comes to hand
Plus, if America's number one cable news source is any indication, neither journalists nor the viewers are's really concerned with external "sources" or "facts."
Saddam was the brains behind 9/11, he had loads of weapons of mass destruction in 2003 that we recovered, and everyone in the world besides Saddam was cheering us on as we invaded Iraq. Anyone who says otherwise is just plain biased.