As the World Tweets, Social Media Chiefs Remain Tight-Lipped
- 7 years ago
As the World Tweets, Social Media Chiefs Remain Tight-Lipped
At a TimesTalks event in Washington on Thursday night, The Times’ executive editor, Dean Baquet, said
that overly opinionated or partisan tweets could undermine the paper’s mission of reporting “objectively and clearly.”
Pointing up the new tension between journalists’ speaking freely and being part of a team at a news organization like The Times, the White House correspondent Peter Baker noted
that the Trump administration “doesn’t make a distinction” between his tweets and those of his colleagues who do not cover politics.
The willingness of those who make daily use of Google
and social media sites to offer up their likes and dislikes, not to mention the details of their spending habits and internet wanderings, provides Mr. Zuckerberg and his fellows with the personal data that is the holy grail of modern advertising.
“Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”
As Mr. Dorsey told Wired in April, “A more open exchange of information is our purpose, and it’s a noble one.”
The social-media overlords seem sincere when they describe their high-minded intentions.
“The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers
and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly,” Mr. Zuckerberg told the author David Kirkpatrick in 2009.
Witness last week’s story about the former Fox News anchor Jane Skinner Goodell, who
is married to Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the National Football League.
At a TimesTalks event in Washington on Thursday night, The Times’ executive editor, Dean Baquet, said
that overly opinionated or partisan tweets could undermine the paper’s mission of reporting “objectively and clearly.”
Pointing up the new tension between journalists’ speaking freely and being part of a team at a news organization like The Times, the White House correspondent Peter Baker noted
that the Trump administration “doesn’t make a distinction” between his tweets and those of his colleagues who do not cover politics.
The willingness of those who make daily use of Google
and social media sites to offer up their likes and dislikes, not to mention the details of their spending habits and internet wanderings, provides Mr. Zuckerberg and his fellows with the personal data that is the holy grail of modern advertising.
“Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”
As Mr. Dorsey told Wired in April, “A more open exchange of information is our purpose, and it’s a noble one.”
The social-media overlords seem sincere when they describe their high-minded intentions.
“The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers
and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly,” Mr. Zuckerberg told the author David Kirkpatrick in 2009.
Witness last week’s story about the former Fox News anchor Jane Skinner Goodell, who
is married to Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the National Football League.