Sunday, May 19, 2013

From a plain blog about politics: Ignore the Twitter News Cycle on Scandals

In the interest of tying the IRS scandal into as many aspect of this class as possible, here's a post wondering what the effects of twitter are on our approach to the scandal. We - or at least some - may over or underestimate its importance based on the slant given it by the narrative it contains.

This raises a question thatstudents who are thinking about looking at scandals historically might want to take into consideration: Do some scandals take off or die simply because of the nature of the media at a specific monet in time?