Daily Show pokes fun at Social Media coverage of Iran

by Scott Hoffman on June 21, 2009

During the last week, many of the news organizations have turned to the Social Web to get information about what is happening in Iran. The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart pokes fun at them, enjoy.

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Tagged as: Daily Show, Facebook, Iran, Jon Stewart, social media, twitter

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    [...] I wanted to take a closer look at the relevant data so I tracked Twitter’s growth versus the top 4 online news destinations, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today. What I found was that in last 3 months Twitter has overtaken every single major online news services. (Chart Below) Twitter (and social Media) in some cases is becoming a quoted news source, as has been happening with the Iran election coverage. [...]

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