Nandakishore

"Of course! The tweets are raw and not confirmed news while journalists do all kinds of double, treble and quadruple checks before publishing their contents!" Many of us who are not journalists as well as almost all journalists will subscribe to the above fictitious statement, although I don't think that any tweet has ever done so much harm to the humanity as those (embedded) journalists, in conjunction with 'sophisticated' politicians who spread the fairy tale about the Weapons of Mass Destruction supposedly stockpiled by Saddam Hussein. There are hundreds of other examples of news 'pollution' across the globe. Their perpetrators are never suppliers of 'raw' and unverified information. In fact the method of systematic research and verification can often be the tool of disinformation. I am not saying that systematic journalism is always a source of disinformation. But I think that the positive example of 'Watergate' journalism is not the rule, but the exception. I think the journalism is becoming more and more entangled in corruption they are supposed to unearth, irrespective of whether the news is about politics, economics, sports or culture. Perhaps tweeting is the most modern instrument that can effectively counteract the system of ingenious disinformation practised by the established news agencies by virtue of its 'raw-ness' and improvisation.