Iran Twitter and Youtube coverage show that TV Journalism is not far behind newspapers on the way out

I like many have been following the monumental events in Iran today on Twitter and Youtube. Additionally, I have been following Ann Curry of CNN on Twitter for a month or so. I respect her as a journalist, but today her posts on Twitter seem to have shown that she like her peers are just clueless as what is news and also the journalists losing battle against faster, better and more useful information being transmitted directly from the source to the viewers/readers.

First late yesterday, she posted on Twitter the following about Steve Jobs [of Apple]:

"Crazy we are just now hearing steve jobs had a liver transplant "about two months ago." Happened in Tennessee where waiting list shorter."

Ann, this is private matter for Steve Jobs. And from what I read in this reaction of hers, she just does not understand that. Just sad to see a journalist of experience having this kind of view of something that is clear not news.

All of today, she has been posting on Twitter about the issues in Iran. In once sense, I guess this is good that it took her off the 'Steve Jobs story' hunt. A number of her posts and the the amazing coverage that is going on of this event with NO [or very few] foreign journalists in Iran via Twitter and YouTube is my second point. CNN is no more important to the dissemination of the events occurring than any other poster on Twitter or YouTube. The coverage is occurring without CNN, ABC, BBC, CBS or any other news organization. Here is another post by Curry on Twitter:

"Just watched a video so graphic know it would traumatize. What we would not broadcast, do we post? This is a new frontier for journalists."

She just watch the same video that everyone else with access to YouTube did. Well Ann, you may call it a 'new frontier', but I think it is your swan song.