{"id":1642,"date":"2013-10-21T12:39:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T09:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=1642\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T12:41:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T10:41:21","slug":"the-word-of-the-week-is-anti-twitterist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is-anti-twitterist\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is Anti-Twitterist<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"

The influential Aamulehti newspaper has begun criticizing Twitter. “Messages are usually one-liners and rarely have content. For the most part humbug… People\u2019s posts are mainly nonsense and harmful to themselves.” Editor-in-chief Jorma Pokkinen has already declared<\/a> himself an opponent of social media, but just last week he attacked the Finnish Lutheran Church\u2019s ‘twermons’. “The new religion’s name is Twitter-Tweet. People can’t find great truths in coffee-shop chatter, and that’s all that tweeting is. The article I’m writing has 3671 characters; I’m off to get a coffee and figure out how to get that down to 140 characters.” Elsewhere in the paper interviewees from carefully chosen groups praise the superiority of paper compared to electronic communications: “The reader has not rejected the printed paper”, “My paper is a part of my breakfast”, “I’m not going to start my computer; I want to read the paper.” Condensing Pokkinen\u2019s message into a single tweet is actually simple: “Don’t use social media\u2014subscribe to our paper.” (46 characters). I do understand that the print media going to defend its own business interests; they’re not ready to admit, “Hey, guys, we’re losing this game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The influential Aamulehti newspaper has begun criticizing Twitter. “Messages are usually one-liners and rarely have content. For the most part humbug… People\u2019s posts are mainly nonsense and harmful to themselves.” Editor-in-chief Jorma Pokkinen has already declared himself an opponent of social media, but just last week he attacked the Finnish Lutheran Church\u2019s ‘twermons’. “The new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}