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CNN US president "afraid" of social networking sites

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Don’t look to friending Joe Klein, the president of CNN US, on Facebook. The media executive made remarks at the Bloomberg BusinessWeek 2010 Media Summit on Wednesday, expressing a less-than-friendly attitude toward social networking sites. “The competition I’m really afraid of are social networking sites,” Klein said, as quoted in an AFP article.

“The people you’re friends with on Facebook or the people you follow on Twitter are trusted sources of information…. You click on links they send to you and you trust them,” Klein said. “Well, we want to be the most trusted name in news…. We don’t want the 1,000 people you follow in Twitter to be the most trusted sources for you.”

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 Noelle Chun

Comments (5)

Mar 11, 2010
Peter Davison said...
Interesting -- I figure I follow 20 -30 CNN staff including Christiniane Amanpour @AmanpourCNN & Anderson Cooper.

This is somewhat irresponsible considering the main CNN twitter page has almost 1 million followers.

Mar 12, 2010
BradHutchings said...
It's not just trust, it's relevance. What's relevant to me might not be so relevant to you. That's the bigger problem for Klein.
Mar 12, 2010
Ron De Giusti said...
There will always be room for large news organizations; blogging will not kill CNN.

Blogging just means there are a lot more "opinion pieces" out there.

If anything, blogging helps the major news players because it leads people down a path of looking further into articles they read.

Mar 12, 2010
CCarretero said...
that is an odd comment to make Klein, especially now days
Mar 12, 2010
Eric Pederson said...
I like that he is thinking & saying this.

I believe the world needs good, trustable news sources; but it is up to CNN to earn our trust. Modern news organizations have tended to do a poor job of earning our trust; have they been providing full, clear facts in context?

We need "the truth and nothing but the truth" --- what we usually get is entertainment and opinion dressed as news. CNN, quit focusing on the tweets; be the factual, contextual authority. The key word in "breaking news" is "news"

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