Sunday 12 February 2012

Sky News as a big LOL


This advice to its house journalists from a news service which was one of the first to be embroiled in the Tent Embassy quotes misquotes saga….
Sky News has told its journalists not to repost information from any Twitter users who are not an employee of the broadcaster.
An email to staff on Tuesday laid out new social media guidelines for Sky News employees, including a contentious ban on retweeting rival "journalists or people on Twitter".……
"Where a story has been Tweeted by a Sky News journalist who is assigned to the story it is fine, desirable in fact, that it is retweeted by other Sky News staff.
"Do not retweet information posted by other journalists or people on Twitter. Such information could be wrong and has not been through the Sky News editorial process."………
A Sky News spokeswoman said: "Sky News has the same editorial procedures across all their platforms including social media to ensure the news we report is accurate."

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