DSmith_Tucson @DSmith_Tucson@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com

Non-racist explanation: Kimberly Yee was the only incumbent Republican on the ballot and didn’t run as an election denier.

"CBS News Suspends Twitter Posting ‘In Light of the Uncertainty’ About Musk-Owned Social Platform."

https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/cbs-news-pauses-twitter-posting-1235437572/

"In light of the uncertainty around Twitter and out of an abundance of caution, CBS News is pausing its activity on the social media site as it continues to monitor the platform,” Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News national correspondent, said in a report about the latest chaos at the company on the “CBS Evening News” Friday.

Quoting Elon Musk:

"As Twitter pursues the goal of elevating citizen journalism, media elite will try everything to stop that from happening."

My definition of citizen journalism— 14 years ago:

"When the people formerly known as the audience employ the press tools they have in their possession to inform one another, that’s citizen journalism."

http://archive.pressthink.org/2008/07/14/a_most_useful_d.html

I still like that definition.

But: that citizen journalism can or should replace the professional kind is a crazy claim.