Media Gone Wrong

"If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham’s H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him! #superbowl." - Roland Martin

Roland Martin, who was fired from CNN as a newspaper columnist and a political analyst, wrote a controversial tweet about the Superbowl.

In the column "Twitter Is All in Good Fun, Until It Isn’t" by David Carr, he speaks about Twitter as the world headquarters of snap judgments, which is true but I feel it's for all medias itself.

It's easy for someone to join the online debate and express thoughts freely.

After all, it's just words. The media can be easily offended when given the chance to express. That is the real problem here, which is why I agree with what Carr has to say.

He furthers his point about judgmental people on social media by bringing up other examples, like an Arizona Daily Star reporter who was fired for writing posts critical of colleagues and of the city of Tucson.

This happened the same year as the Superbowl situation.

The National Labor Relations Board justified his dismissal as legal because he was warned by his employers not to post about work-related issues.

Situations throughout all media occur regularly.

Carr brought up important questions behind the theme of this column:

When do you post on Twitter?

Should you often look at it through the eyes of your boss and his bosses and ask, is this congruent with the journalistic values of the institution — or, more succinctly, will it create a headache for the employer?

To answer his question, it's a common trend for companies to watch what their employees post to their social medias, as they are representing the company in some way or form.

Social media should be a positive outlook as social situations could make people feel unsafe about things like their sexuality.

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