Mike Wise of WaPo fakes story to make a point

It was a great point, DD.
But in the end, "Fabulist" seems like too kind a term for the likes of Cooke, Blair, Kelley, Glass.
It almost seems like something one should aspire to achieve.
Can't we come up with something more sinister?

 

Mike Wise didn't prove anything about Twitter; He only proved that people trust the Washington Post.

Twitter is just another medium to disseminate information, just like newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, blogs, and other websites are information media. The reputation of the source is what matters. People don't trust what the Washington Post writes because it is printed in a newspaper but rather because it is published by the Washington Post. So if a Washington Post writer tweets something, the public should have reasonable trust that what he said was reported honestly.

With print media, you have gossip rags and The Globe and the Examiner at the extremity. With Twitter, you have a lot of regular people just expressing their thoughts and you also have a lot of professional journalists who work for the most trusted names in news. Nothing has changed but the medium.