
Episode 166 • • 26:13 - 27:52
166: Monica Crowley's Stilettos
Democracy Now, Twitter Journalism, Olufsen Hotel
The news program Democracy Now is criticized for its coverage of the Haiti earthquake, which featured a journalist in Brooklyn reading tweets from Richard Morse at the Olufsen Hotel. The hosts mock this reliance on social media as a substitute for on-the-ground reporting. They argue that reading publicly available tweets does not constitute professional journalism during a major disaster.
