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Dilemma: Is live tweeting your father's death right? | The PR Coach

Dilemma: Is live tweeting your father's death right? | The PR Coach | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
From www.theprcoach.com - February 26, 2014 9:06 PM

It’s one of those linkbait stories that catches your eye and won’t go away. Like a train wreck, you can’t resist looking at it.


So, when Business Insider posted This Woman Is Live-Tweeting Her Father’s Death Right Now, I clicked to read their report, prepared to be outraged:

“Diagnosed with lung cancer, Mr. Kilmartin was admitted to hospice on February 20th. Laurie, a comedian and finalist on Last Comic Standing, has been live-tweeting her experience watching her dad die before her eyes.

Kilmartin’s tweets hit all of the stages of grief. There’s sadness of course. And there’s love. And due to Kilmartin’s nature, there’s humor.”...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

It's a social media moral dilemma and a deeply moving story: 

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Twitter is about to change the news media – again | Michael Wolff

Twitter is about to change the news media – again | Michael Wolff | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
From m.guardian.co.uk - May 29, 2013 9:30 AM

...The news industry as a whole is shrinking. Advertisers have become more resistant to not just newspapers but all news media. Twitter might well have been a more attractive proposition if it had evolved into a micro-blogging tool for special interest and niche writers who advertisers are more partial to. But news is where Twitter has most squarely ended up. And the news business might actually be pretty good if you can make yourself the dominant player in it, the must-have, must-use, need-to-rely-on player in the business – and if you are the only one.

 

The Twitter direction is clear: It has found itself as an ad hoc, albeit still inchoate, but ever-increasing focal point for the distribution of news. More and more people turn first to Twitter for their news. As significantly, almost every news professional turns first to Twitter for news – every news professional, personally and organizationally, increasingly sees success as a function of its Twitter reaction. Now Twitter has to make money out of this. It will not do this by finding and creating its own news. Rather, it will do this by increasing the dominance and leverage of its redistributor position....

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Han Xin Yi's comment, August 28, 2013 9:38 AM
Twitter’s involvement in news media has made the social networking site a prominent player amongst new media. In this Internet age, many people want information quick and fast. Twitter’s swift delivery of bite-sized information makes it suitable as a platform for news media though it is important to for the voices of people to corroborate with information from official news sites.
Chua Fang Jing Annette's comment August 29, 2013 3:02 PM
Although Twitter may be able to change the news media, it might not be able to affect it as great as the author claims. Despite being convenient for many, the news on Twitter may not be justified. Therefore, although Twitter may be able to change the news media, old-media still holds its importance.
Shanel Evaron Ho's comment, August 29, 2013 7:16 PM
Although Twitter may be viewed as bad because it often distracts people from doing work, it is actually also a good and useful source of news. It is able to convey information fast to Twitter users and of course convenient for many. However, as Twitter may not be as credible as compared to other news media, it may not be that preferred a platform for news.
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