6/17/2009

"News gathering...becoming a collective pursuit"

Over the past few days, CNN has been heavily criticized by the Twitterverse for not adequately covering the Iranian elections. #CNNFail has been a trending topic on Twitter as people continue to hammer away at the news organization and their coverage. In what I believe is a remarkable piece, CNN's Rick Sanchez fights back against the online uprising and defends the news organization and its coverage of the Iranian election. Let that sink in for a moment. CNN is fighting back against Twitter. Even more fascinating is Sanchez' closing line in the below segment when he says, "The fact is that news gathering as we long have discovered on this particular show is becoming a collective pursuit, and we welcome that." A very insightful segment into the changing traditional news media industry:

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