HH3 wrote:Dogwatcher wrote:HH3 wrote:Not if they opened Twitter and that was the top post. You also assume they all follow the same people on Twitter as you. They might have ABC, but no other news one. Maybe they don't follow any sport ones.
I would've thought speculating that someone is dead, before knowing anything, would be considered bad media practice. Guess not.
Twitter users are news followers, they would have more than one news service on their Feed and all of them were posting about the incident. Any family member of a Test/first class cricketer on Twitter would have plenty of cricket, sport organisations on their Twitter feed.
I agree that it's bad media practice, but to isolate this one Tweet and not condone any of the others is hypocritical for mine. There were many, many equally as distressing things on my Twitter feed yesterday.
Im not gonna argue with you. They were the only ones that insinuated he was dead. Stupid, irresponsible tweet. You even agreed it was bad media practice. So what point are you arguing now? That you know what tweeter feeds his family follows?
I agreed that people would be offended by it, right from the start. I'm arguing that it is hypocritical to be isolating one Tweet.
You seemed to know what feeds his family might be following.