sarah jeong

@SaraMorrison there aren’t easy answers to which extent social media platforms are public or private, and I don’t think journalism should +

@SaraMorrison be limited to public information anyways (see, e.g., government leaks, whistleblowing). But when you’re writing +

@SaraMorrison about someone sympathetically, not adversarially, you have to navigate with care.

@SaraMorrison or just get called a dick, and deal with it, I guess

@SaraMorrison that’s probably a valid course of action too

@sarahjeong I think if you tweet it, it's public. People get called out for racist tweets, those tweets are used w/o their permission ...

@SaraMorrison I think it depends on in what context you’re applying the public/private distinction. But I agree with you at the end there--

@SaraMorrison it’s understandably jarring to see a tweet on Buzzfeed w/o notice, and that’s something to take into consideration sometimes