Twitter CEO on tweets as a form of journalism

BBC Newsnight grilled Twitter co-founder and chief executive Evan Williams with questions that more often than not have a negative tone to them. Twitter was accused of creating a false sense of community, being just a service for celebrities, dehumanising its users and possibly being just a fad. The questions reveal a deep bias and misunderstanding against this new form of media from established media such as Newsnight, even though

Newsnight's Paxman and his take on citizen media

Image via WikipediaJeremy Paxman, the presenter of the BBC’s flagship news and current affairs show, Newsnight, reveals his feeling about user-generated content and engaging with the audience, with his pay-off at the end of the programme: …on the website along with our editor’s pathetic pleas for you to send some of your old bits of home movies and the like so that we can become the BBC’s version of Animals