Designer Kenneth Cole personally released an unimaginably thoughtless Tweet today, in which he conflated protests in Egypt with a sales pitch for his clothing line. He later apologized, claiming his Tweet was an inappropriate attempt at humor. The LA Times story offers a useful overview of Cole's dim actions.The Cole episode is a curious one, given the MSM's trumpeting of Twitter and Facebook as popular communication devices for the Egyptian people during their time of crisis. It's evident that the MSM wasn't as nimble in its reporting as were the Tweets and Facebook entries that mobilized the Arab world's most cosmopolitan and culturally significant city to revolt. However, some MSM stars got a taste of the rough side of journalism. Ah, there's nothing quite like field experience....
No comments:
Post a Comment