Lets be real, with the advent of twitter, news can break at the metaphorical drop of a hat or the very literal eavesdropping of a nosey person.
“If you over hear an an athlete tell his family at a restaurant, ‘I’m going to Syracuse’ you can tweet that,” Mike Tirico, ESPN’s voice of Monday Night Football, said to a group of Syracuse students Thursday. “You can break that news on Twitter.”
And he’s right. Anyone with a Twitter account can report anything they hear as news.
“There’s no such thing as off the record anymore,” he added.
The world of sports journalism is changing rapidly. News is “broken” with a press release or a news conference anymore. It’s done on Twitter.
That means opposable thumbs and a smartphone can be especially dangerous on April 1.
Therefore, I’m not trusting a single word I read today. Heck, the “RIP Jackie Chan” hoax rolled through Twitter just a few days ago. And it wasn’t even the holiday of practical jokes!
Nope, today, I, Nick Lilja, pledge to not break news unless I have 20 people, 20 sources, the AP, ESPN and Brett Favre corroborating on the story.
With that being said… Brett Favre is going to quarterbacks coach at Ole Miss in 2011 if the CBA fiasco isn’t resolved.
Have fun with that one, Twitter.
No comment. But I did retweet your Brett Favre comments.
No comment. But I did retweet your Brett Favre comments.