Here, Trudi looks at the pace of news today, which is almost instantaneuos, making it known to the public almost as soon as it breaks. Twitter seems to be helping make this revolutionary change to having things immediately and Trudi uses a great example of a court case she herself was at to demonstrate the speed at which news now operates.
So before anyone else in the courtroom gets a chance to digest the results of a court case, a journalist seems to be immediately on Twitter updating the public on the happenings, moments later they are following the comment with a full blown article, all online in a matter of minutes.
The court case Trudi attended was David Bourke Vs the Attorney General. The verdict of Mr Bourke being found guilty of murdering his wife, Jean Gilbert was announced around 16.45 on Monday 30th of March. At 17.13, the Irish Times had a tweet, “Man who stabbed wife found guilty”, then the follow up article was published at 18.08.
She notes the usefulness of Twitter to keep up to date with breaking news stories and clearly brings to light the immediacy of news today.
