Comments on: Sun reporters defend their Dixon coverage from charges it wasn’t. . . Tweeted enough?!

By: Jason Policastro » Blog Archive » Young Media in an Old City

Jason Policastro » Blog Archive » Young Media in an Old City — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:10:37 +0000

[...] on the use of Twitter and pointing to the rest of their coverage. Local news site Baltimore Brew chronicled the exchange. Quinton updated the post to clarify the courtroom ban and downplayed the [...]

By: kateebee

kateebee — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:53:11 +0000

I find the twitter updates helpful & interesting, especially because I don’t have time to read full articles throughout the day to try to decipher what the update was from a few hours prior, but agree with the Sun that it’s totally against the Court’s regulations and shouldn’t be allowed inside the courtroom. (Hallway, sure.)

What I totally find irresponsible in this article, though is this quote: “Our take? Live blogging is helpful – if for nothing else than to tell other reporters when to get down to the courthouse because something’s happening!”. If you’re reporting on the trial, report on the trial from the Courthouse, not sitting in an office somewhere waiting for someone else to do the dirty work and send you a bat signal to head down to get the scoop. That’s just plain lazy.

By: Knute Gnormanson

Knute Gnormanson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:54:02 +0000

Great site, but a little too much dancing on the grave of print journalism. You’ll know you’ve made it when you’re not spending inches on the Sun and the Post.

By: Mary Spiro

Mary Spiro — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:42:20 +0000

I have to agree with Joseph White. As much as I am a tweet geek I am not in favor of texting, tweeting, live-blogging from a courtroom. Since I also write about science, I am also not in favor of tweeting, texting etc. from certain scientific meetings either. Does this impede the flow of information to the public? Yes. Is there a reason for it? Yes. It the judge set the rule, then the judge should enforce the rule. Even so, the Dixon trial is huge waste of time and money. There are much bigger fish to fry in the city of Baltimore and Sheila Dixon’s Gift-Card Gate is not one of them. Move along…nothing to see here.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:27:13 +0000

The Sun still has reporters, other than Liz Bowie? I am shocked, really shocked.

Can we ask them to stop dropping off the advertising crap with which they litter our neighborhoods on Wednesdays, just to boost their circulation?

PLEASE!!

SteveK

By: Jim Keat

Jim Keat — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:22:38 +0000

The real lesson for parasites like Quinton is that they will be left chewing nothing but their cud if the MSM they disdain go out of business. It’s clear that the news business has to change its distribution methods drastically, but unless reporters like those on the Dixon case are doing the real work, these so-called bloggers will have nothing to write about.
Jim Keat (a dinosaur)

By: Joseph White

Joseph White — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:32:06 +0000

I think it’s an outrageous breach of protocol to tweet from any courtroom. If I were a judge, I would confiscate any cell phone or other elctronic device used during a trial.

There has to be some respect for the judicial procedure left in this country. The integrity of the court should not be violated.