Response to Sarah's "Sky News Orders All Journalists to Install Tweetdeck."

Sarah wrote about the article "Sky News Orders All Journalists to Install Tweetdeck" which discusses Sky News' decision to make tweetdeck a mandatory application for it journalists. Sarah had some criticisms against Sky News dictating their journalists social networking options and had thoughts that it could become a distraction. I believe, however, that Sky News could be on to something. With sites existing like Twitter that can be up to date with the latest news down to the second, it seems like a journalist would thrilled to have access to such a tool. Journalists are always looking for the biggest news story, and they want to be the first to report it. An app like twitterdeck could be extremely useful to help accomplish that. When these reporters are up to date with the latest news, it means that the listeners and viewers of the news will be too. With these kinds of benefits it hardly appears like a minute or two of simple distraction could be a serious problem.