Is This The Real Beginning Of The End Of The Little Blue Bird?

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From the horse's mouth so to speak:

NPR will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds, becoming the first major news organization to go silent on the social media platform. In explaining its decision, NPR cited Twitter's decision to first label the network "state-affiliated media," the same term it uses for propaganda outlets in Russia, China and other autocratic countries.

The decision by Twitter last week took the public radio network off guard. When queried by NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn, Twitter owner Elon Musk asked how NPR functioned. Musk allowed that he might have gotten it wrong.

Twitter then revised its label on NPR's account to "government-funded media." The news organization says that is inaccurate and misleading, given that NPR is a private, nonprofit company with editorial independence. It receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting...

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...NPR is instituting a "two-week grace period" so the staff who run the Twitter accounts can revise their social-media strategies...

If there's one thing that the short history of the interwebz has taught us, it's that digital things that you don't actually need to do digital things can disappear very quickly when folks find out that one of those digital things is no longer useful.

Now,  I don't know about you but the main reason I still check in over at Twitter somewhat regularly is to get the early jump on what's happening news wise before that same said news is later published/broadcast in its final herded form by traditional news outlets.

And a whole lot of that early news wiseyness comes from the folks who work for those traditional news outlets.

So.

If traditional news outlets start to pull their people from the platform?

Well...


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And it's not just NPR that Mr. Musk has upset. The same issue has the BBC steaming. As for the New York Times?...Earlier this month Musk pulled the Gray Lady's checkmark and called it propaganda.


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