{"id":2325,"date":"2014-07-26T15:10:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T15:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2014-07-26T15:10:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T15:10:29","slug":"cnns-diana-magnay-is-latest-reminder-that-twitter-can-be-a-journalists-worst-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/cnns-diana-magnay-is-latest-reminder-that-twitter-can-be-a-journalists-worst-enemy","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s Diana Magnay is latest reminder that Twitter can be a journalist\u2019s worst enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">By Paul Farhi July 24<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Among its many virtues and drawbacks, social media may be one of the most effective tools ever invented to assist journalists in harming their careers.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Since the advent of Twitter, Facebook and other instantaneous digital platforms, reporters have lost their jobs, been suspended or been reassigned after posting things deemed inappropriate by readers, viewers and \u2014 most important \u2014 their bosses. The objectionable posts have usually called into question the journalists\u2019 ability to remain neutral and fair to both sides of any story.<\/p>\n<p>The latest casualty: CNN correspondent Diana Magnay, who last week stirred criticism for a tweet about a group of Israelis who were cheering a missile attack on Gaza. Magnay said in her tweet that members of the group had threatened her. \u201cScum,\u201d she concluded. Amid an outraged reaction, the network apologized, saying Magnay was referring only to the group\u2019s alleged harassment of her, not to its support of the military action. She was quickly reassigned to Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/cnns-diana-magnay-is-latest-reminder-that-twitter-can-be-a-journalists-worst-enemy\/2014\/07\/24\/c1729b70-12a9-11e4-8936-26932bcfd6ed_story.html\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Farhi July 24 Among its many vir &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/cnns-diana-magnay-is-latest-reminder-that-twitter-can-be-a-journalists-worst-enemy\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[296,674,93,1351],"views":1050,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}