Why does Twitter turn people into monsters?

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Today, she's whinging about Twitter again:

Why does Twitter turn people into monsters?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2122984/Liam-Stacey-Why-does-Twitter-turn-people-monsters.html

Does it turn people into monsters? Or does it just give unpleasant people a platform?

In it, she complains that earlier this week, photos of the body of a woman killed in a road accident were posted on Twitter:



Thankfully, the Mail would never dream of publishing the photos of recently deceased people...

Also:



How dare Twitter! That's her job!

And finally:



Once again, I'm glad she's writing this for the Mail, which absolutely does not have a platform for bullies, perverts etc

Columnists and hacks in general do not approve of the explosion of blogs, social networks and twitter because for the very first time Joe Public can hit back at their output. JP can also organise themselves and target particular issues and journalists. I reckon journos now think twice before hitting the Send button on their computers. Lynda Lee Potter would have hated it.

Not forgetting of course that they are exposed to the wrong information and information not passed through the filters of the journalists pens

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It also bursts the bubble of the journo world. Columnists such as Platell and McKenzie play up their 'inside the corridors of power' card a hell of a lot. They trade on the idea that they know what's really going on and can interpret it for us lesser mortals.

Blogs, twitter etc show this lie up for what it is. The musings of the 'insiders' are just as banal and meaningless as those of the rest of us. Or more to the point, a blogger without a high public profile is capable of just as good reportage and analysis as a highly paid journo. In fact frequently better, as the blogger is likely writing for love rather than money, on issues that genuinely interest them, rather than offering up a hackneyed opinion for the sake of filling space (see today's effort from Platell for pointless digs at the Duchess of Cornwall and Diane Keaton).

They're also rather concerned that sooner or later the accountants will notice this (especially as more and more people turn to internet news, and away from traditional print journalism). So, squash the upstart.

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Today's column is just one long bitch about people she doesn't like because they are better looking than her or more successful than her. Considering that she has been the editor of a national newspaper and an adviser to the leader of the opposition you would expect her to bring a bit of insight to the subjects she writes about. Instead with many of her pieces this week it looks like she has merely read articles in her own paper and then tried to be even bitchier than the person who wrote the original article.

Given that she received a public dressing down this week over her article about Cheryl Gascoigne you would have thought she would have made more of an effort to avoid making ill inform and inaccurate comments yet she manages to brand a woman a bimbo because she appeared on radio 5 stating that she wanted her PIP breast implants removing. Platell believes that if people chose to have cosmetic surgery done and it goes wrong the individual is responsible. Surely when operations go wrong it is the fault of the hospital or the surgeon who carried out the operation or the fault of regulators for allowing unsafe procedures to be carried out in the first place.

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The fact that she hasn't been told to tone down her act tells me that Paul Darce doesn't care what people think.

Crike, of its type, this is almost OK.

Apart from the obvious rubbish that Warsi was up there for 3 weeks campaigning.

I wonder how Amanda would feel if, say, someone on Twitter published a photo of a man who had been stabbed in the neck with a broken bottle, surrounded by paramedics?

A photo like this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124841/TOWIE-stars-locked-nightclub-man-stabbed-neck-Blackberry-party.html

More substandard journalism from Platell



Has she got any evidence to back up the claim that 'our children have never been more illiterate'?

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Nope. There is none.

I can safely say, with no evidence, that she has no evidence.

I wonder of the 17 teachers she talks about (source?) were sacked for incompetency.

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I think she means fired after they have been given an improvement programme which they have failed to fulfil. What Platell would never admit (or perhaps understand) is that, unlike journalism, proper professions have structures and procedures for the proper training and mentoring of members. Most teachers who don't cut the mustard (after extra training) are simply asked to leave, or find a school in which they can perform effectively, and they do. Some few push their luck, and get fired.

There is an ex-teacher of mine whom I was friendly enough with but didn't have the greatest of records in bringing his students through formal exams and having met him over recent years, it seemed that he just became resigned at his job and waited for his retirement to come which he took a couple of years ago. Seems he found it difficult to adapt to updates in the curriculum and what exams required, particularly when it came to computers.

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Private schools are known for this. It's not uncommon for a teacher to work 30 years in the state sector, then hop off to an independent school for a few years before retiring: the pay's better, the job's easier, and there's just as little risk of being sacked for 'incompetence'.