Breaking news and the social web, all in one day.
Earlier this afternoon, I wrote a long post about Facebook's coverage of Ferguson, which included the handwringing from many members of the media over Facebook's algorithm filtering hard news coverage of the protests. It also included a a good bit of praise from the same crowd (myself, included) as to the raw, unfiltered, and ceaseless coverage of all developments out of Ferguson. The consensus from the media crowd: Twitter is the best place for raw breaking news.
Are you sure you want raw breaking news?
Just an hour ago a very disturbing video surfaced, showing American journalist James Foley being brutally beheaded. Naturally, the link to the video as well as extremely disturbing and graphic photos began to appear on Twitter. In the past year, Twitter has updated to allow in-stream image and video previews, meaning many users didn't have any warning before seeing the graphic scene.
Naturally, the reaction was of horror and disgust, as well as justified criticism of posting the images at all:
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