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Dan Gillmor Jul 6, 2023

It gets more absurd every day for Big Journalism to keep pouring its work into Saudi-government-funded Twitter, which is controlled by a right-winger who hates real journalism and boosts extremists.

It gets even more absurd for journalism orgs to keep embedding tweets in their stories, given Musk's unfathomable destruction of the platform's usefulness.

I keep wondering when journalists will discover that big tech is not their daddy.

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Sanjath S

@dangillmor embedding tweets is cheaper and effective way to get clicks. Most readers fall for headline saying "xyz got destroyed for saying <nonsense>", we won't click thrua well worded criticism of the statement. Most folks enjoy one line take down( or meme) than lengthy article. Unfortunately journalism isn't commercially viable. As we are lacking attention span beyond one or two sentences.