{"id":573883207,"date":"2012-05-02T21:15:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T02:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573883207"},"modified":"2012-05-05T18:34:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T23:34:05","slug":"a-poorly-flowing-hodge-podge-or-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/a-poorly-flowing-hodge-podge-or-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"A poorly flowing hodge podge (Or: Wednesday)"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might not be a journalist, Niemanlab says, but you play one on Twitter<\/a>. True enough. There’s a lots of journalism being reported there. And a fair amount being poorly reported, as critics like to point out. Others might note, in response, that there’s a great deal of things underreported elsewhere that get attention on Twitter.<\/p>\n

I prefer Twitter as an aggregation tool. I’ve talked with disbelieving journalism professors and working journalists and television producers about the quality of Twitter — they’re all using the tool these days, by the way — about that. I learn a great deal from Twitter that I wouldn’t get elsewhere. <\/p>\n

Just today for example, a friend in Montgomery pointed out this story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Alabama lawmakers gave final approval today to a watered-down version of legislation aimed at getting more insurance coverage for autism treatment.<\/p>\n

The House of Representatives voted 96-0 for the bill, sending it to the governor for his signature.<\/p>\n

The legislation requires insurance companies to offer coverage for the treatment of autism, including for a costly behavioral therapy that now is rarely covered. Businesses could choose whether to offer the coverage as part of their insurance options for employees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A friend in Atlanta passed along this terrific Der Spiegel<\/a> feature on East Berlin, before and after the Iron Curtain was pulled down. <\/p>\n

Found this on Twitter today too, from a colleague in Arizona. Media Storm, which is journalism juggernaut that doesn’t work as a traditional newsroom, won three awards from the National Press Photographers Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also wouldn’t have found this unfortunate error<\/a> from the Lufkin Daily News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

And finally, we roast ourselves for mistakenly running a previously published editorial about Pearl Harbor Day in this space in Tuesday’s newspaper. Dec. 7, 1941, is a day that President Franklin D. Roosevelt aptly called “A day of infamy.” While our mistake pales in comparison, May 1, 2012, will go down as a dark hour in this newsroom. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not to be pedantic, but The Lufkin Daily News is playing a bit fast and loose with the quote, too. That Texas paper is putting a paywall on their website next month. We wish them well. <\/p>\n

And, if you’re thinking “Someone that says “Not to be pedantic means to, in fact, be pedantic” you are absolutely correct.<\/p>\n

Rain, on my drive home:<\/p>\n