R.I.P. Suspect Video, Duke’s, National Sound

February 20th, 2008 2 Comments

A mas­sive fire broke out this morn­ing on Queen Street West.

Fire on Queen West

I ini­tially found out about the fire on a friend’s Facebook sta­tus up­date. The above photo came from BlogTO, one of my pri­mary re­sources for news on my city. The Star’s web­site even refers its read­ers to Flickr for more cov­er­age of the fire. Our friends and neigh­bours were able to sup­ply us with first-hand ac­counts, pho­tos and video that tra­di­tional chan­nels were un­able to.

Social net­work­ing sites are be­com­ing the “go to” sources for break­ing news. I re­mem­ber a time when I would have to watch the evening news to know what was hap­pen­ing. Now we know about it min­utes af­ter it hap­pens. Is this a good thing? I think it is. Information is al­ways good to have; nowa­days, you just get it sooner.

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2 Responses to “R.I.P. Suspect Video, Duke’s, National Sound”

  1. bonsmots says:
    February 26, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    What will also be in­ter­est­ing in see­ing how tra­di­tional me­dia will spin the story to fit their bias.

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  2. Andy Donovan says:
    February 26, 2008 at 5:17 pm

    In read­ing your re­cent blogs (and ty­ing it into this post­ing) I be­lieve you are cor­rect in the fact that blog­ging is be­com­ing the “break­ing news” bea­con for any­one want­ing to be kept abreast of what’s go­ing on here, across the coun­try or around the world.

    When you see tra­di­tional jour­nal­ists vy­ing for read­ers on the “Interweb” in record num­bers you just gotta see the street cred go­ing through the roof. It’ll be in­ter­est­ing to see what next story will break on the ‘net be­fore it hits the 6:00 news.

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