Defining the Roles of Traditional vs Social Media

Posted on: 15, May 13

Jonathan Bernstein communications, crisis communications, crisis management, ethics, Facebook, fact checking, Jonathan Bernstein, public relations, reputation management, social media, Twitter 7 Comments

Social media’s role should be to bring information to us quickly.  Traditional media’s role should be to bring information to us accurately. That distinction came to mind recently after I witnessed the horrendously inaccurate traditional media reporting about the Boston Marathon bombing, which was often fed by an apparent desire …