‘This is twitter, not an article’ - ?

There’s an interesting online dustup today in which a reporter for the IdahoReporter.com site disparaged the Senate’s senior member in Twitter posts while the senator spoke at a packed public hearing, and then, when called on it by another reporter on Twitter, responded, “This is twitter, not an article being written.” Idaho Statesman columnist Dan Popkey writes about the exchange on his blog; you can read his post here .