Police save hostages after militants storm Kenya shopping center with guns and grenades. This just in! TV discovers Twitter. At least that's how it seemed watching a recent national TV news story.
It felt like the early days of the internet, years ago. The CBC-TV news report I viewed fell well short of demonstrating the network knows how to use social media to cover a breaking story.
Here's an example of how traditional media continue to struggle to integrate social media into their own news coverage. Can they stay relevant in the 24 x 7 news cycle?