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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Important note re: social networking vs paid, approved columns in print media

I think an important point to highlight in the Deveny debacle is that her personal twitter account is directed at people who choose to read her snippets of comedic comments in this forum. They are not articles approved for publishing by any media organisation that are paying her for written columns in the context of mainstream media. Her comments made on logies night were directed to the former forum and not towards anyone who had not chosen to listen to her adhoc comments - and if they were read by people who do not appreciate her humour and who had chosen to read her twitter comments than those people should refine their 'followers' in their twitter settings. The comments made were certainly not directed at 11 year old children whether they are known in the public realm or not and they would never have been broadcast to the said child via mainstream media, including the newspaper that had hired Deveny for other paid committments in writing. The mainstream media, yet again, is responsible for sensationalising a non-incident and turning it into a publicised and detrimental media campaign to sell their dying print media.

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