11/10/16 - I'm with you on the digital revolution, it's the lack of journalism I can't face (10)

https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/oct/11/im-with-you-on-the-digital-revolution-its-the-lack-of-journalism-i-cant-face

This article is about how different social media sites like Twitter, do not find out the news but it reacts to it, with many newspaper industry spokesman's talking about the different reasons for this. For example, a union leader called Charlie Arlinghaus said that "no one gets their news on Twitter... even the people that think they do". The writer of this article then talks about the definition of this and believes that what he is saying that with social media sites like Twitter, people are allowed to share links by online news sites, e.g. BBC News Online and therefore, read the news from this. In addition, Arlinghaus talks about how the radio massively relied on the newspaper industry to find out about the news about he also believes that without the newspaper's reporters, no local stories would have been covered or printed and therefore believes that these reporters need to have a bit more of a present by the audience.

• Eleven days ago a newspaper serving a small community in the US state of New Hampshire ceased publication after 90 years.
• “No one gets their news from Twitter”, wrote Arlinghaus, “even the people who think they do.”
• About 20 years ago, I was a guest on a local radio talk programme in a New Hampshire city. Waiting for the programme to start, I realised I was sitting where the news broadcaster had sat earlier.
• ...“none of the local stories would have been covered, printed or rebroadcast. No one would have tweeted the story.”

In my opinion, I believe that what has been said in this article (about Twitter not being the main source of news) is very accurate to a lot of cases. It is accurate in the sense that many people do share links of other and official news sources like the BBC News Online and therefore, the spokesman points in this article is correct; many people do share and therefore, Twitter isn't where the news comes from first. However, there are also cases when I disagree with the spokesman as I believe that Twitter is also a platform where news can be found out first. For example, if there was a terrorist attack, most likely there will be footage recorded by the people that are near the attack and therefore, they may post the footage on the Twitter or other social media sites. This then means that the place that this specific news may be found, first, is on Twitter or another social media site.