Tweet me the news

Journalism is still valuable, as well as local (print or online) newspapers. Yes, I do think spelling and grammar are important, and especially for journalism. How would people think the news is credible if the writing is crappy?

The discussion on Monday and also the Maybe it is time to panic made me think other possibilities of online news. In the article "technology doesn't dumb us down. It frees our minds" the author suggested maybe we can blam twitter for making us stupid. And as Nan's really refreshing idea in her post that "media requires less attention may attract more users," a twitter style news might be convenient for people who do not have enough time or attention. 

Actually rss feeds are something similar to twitter style format, but it really depends on what kind of reader (or widget) you are using, the format of the article from the production (news web site maybe) end, and so on. So sometimes the news feeds we end up getting is one headline, or full article. A twitter style means it is short, straightforward, with headline and the blurb text. Nothing else. Maybe something else if the user click on it. But the what shows up on the screen initially should not be more or less than the headline and the blurb text. 

So who will use that? I don't know. But it should not be hard to try this idea. And again, a twitter style does not mean bad writing. It should be the best journalistic writing among all.