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Brokaw: Twitter, bloggers couldn’t topple a Nixon

By Chris Steller | 05.15.09 | 1:39 pm

New media is replacing old media at a pace that threatens traditional journalistic values that America relies on, Tom Brokaw told a gathering of Minnesota journalists Thursday night. “We’re constantly behind the curve,” he said of the news industry’s sluggishness to adjust. “It needs to happen quickly.” Blogging in the current “Thomas Paine environment” is not journalism, he said. “Most of the ‘journalism’ on the Internet is aggregation.”