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(Corrects paragraph seven to say G.T.L. stands for “gym, tan laundry,” not “gym, tan lunch”)
One of the things I like about Twitter is that it behaves in many ways a lot more like a newsroom than a newspaper. … Rumors happen there, and then they get shot down — no harm no foul.

Felix Salmon on Piers Morgan hoax: Not a journalistic sin to pass along rumors in the ‘new newsroom called Twitter’ | Poynter

But what then sets our profession apart from EVERYONE else on Twitter? Why would somebody follow a journalist on twitter over a random guy that will pass along rumours as they appear in his or her timeline? 

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