Local news operations now publicize their stories through a variety of media including Twitter and Facebook. I have no idea how WXII doles out the responsibility for pushing content from their website to Twitter, but they may want to have a chat about how those 140 characters are used. For a story today the Twitter feed read thusly: "Winston-Salem Jogger Struck By Vehicle http://bit.ly/aB1uqp." On the website the headline was "Job Seeker At Fair Struck By Vehicle" and the first paragraph read:
A man who was running to get in a hiring line for the Dixie Classic Fair on Tuesday morning was struck and injured by an SUV along Deacon Boulevard.
It ain't the end of the world but there's a big difference between jogging and sprinting across the street to a job interview, and I think it behooves the news ops to make sure all of their headlines accurately reflect the content of their stories.
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