AP Sportswriter reduced to reporting on Tweets!

Retweet? No Tweetpeat!

Sir Twitalot has noticed a rather sad trend in sportswriting these days.

Rather than keen analysis or in-depth interview, we are getting a lot of sports news that includes
the re-typing of athletes' tweets. (Of course they do include the "sic" notices so we know that they actually re-typed versus cut-and-pasted it.)

That is why Sir Twitalot refers to this as a Tweetpeat, versus a retweet. In honor of Pat Riley's ridiculous trademarking that term, Sir Twitalot gives you TWEETPEAT as open source nomenclature.

NBA ARTICLE BY JON KRAWCZYNSKI, AP Sports Writer


Should we accept this as all we need to know about the situation from these players? Granted, most have learned to parse their words for the media, but if the media is going to merely re-type tweets, what do we need them for?

Granted there was not enough time for in-depth analysis, but tweetpeating as reporting needs to be questioned.