Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018)

This is quite old, but after 2016 election I started to ignore news sites and journalists whose only output seemed to be links to messages some person or another had said. You almost can qualify the value of a journalistic text by counting how many embedded social media messages it has (more the worse).

In medias I follow (national news broadcasting in Europe, mostly) it is quite a bit better these days. Musk letting Twitter openly be a cesspool it has always been means journalists have to actually do their job and can’t just slap a bunch of embed links on a page and call it news.

It seems to me that people are slowly realising how bad these echo chambers are for people mentally and politically. Even Ezra Klein in recent podcast[1] said Twitter echo chamber let Democrats convince ”themselves of a bunch of ideas that were politically lethal.”[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...