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Is Twitter a Reliable Source for News? - Andrew Sullivan

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Channel: FORA.tv · 2009 · News & Politics

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Jeffrey Goldberg and Andrew Sullivan discuss the reliability of Twitter postings as a source for news of events in Iran. Sullivan takes them as true, first-person accounts on the ground while Goldberg defends the necessity of a reporter to investigate and gather more background information.

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Atlantic writers Andrew Sullivan, James Fallows, and Jeffrey Goldberg discuss the ways new social networking technology, like Twitter, enabled massive and fast organization of protests in Iran following the results of the recent election. Mark Whitaker moderates the discussion. - Aspen Ideas Festival

Jeffrey Goldberg is an author and a staff writer for The Atlantic Monthly, having previously worked for The New Yorker. Goldberg has written extensively on foreign affairs, with a focus on the Middle East and Africa. Previously, he was a writer for the New York Times Magazine, covering the Middle East and Africa. He began his career as a police reporter for the Washington Post.

Andrew Michael Sullivan (born August 10, 1963) is a British blogger, author, and political commentator. Born and raised in England, he has lived in the United States since 1984 and currently resides in Washington, D.C. and Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Sullivan is known for his distinctive personal-political identity. He is gay, a Roman Catholic, and a non-U.S. citizen who focuses on American political life.

Sullivan is sometimes considered a pioneer in political weblog journalism, since he was one of the first prominent political journalists in the United States to start his own personal blog. Sullivan wrote his blog for a year at Time Magazine, shifting on 1 February 2007 to The Atlantic, where it received approximately 40 million page views in the first year. He is the former editor of The New Republic and the author of five books.

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