Tweets To @RupertMurdoch On Sky News

Sky News has a controversial new social media policy. According to the Guardian, reporters are banned from retweeting non-company tweets and told not to tweet about subjects unrelated to their beats. In response, @rupertmurdoch (whose News Corp. owns part of Sky News) was singled out in some tweets.

  1. Did @rupertmurdoch write the new Sky News social media regulations himself or something?
  2. Amazed at @skynews new Twitter policy. Been at media forefront for decade, taken step backwards 3 yrs guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb… @rupertmurdoch
  3. So THIS is what @rupertmurdoch was doing on Twitter. So much for free speech. http://m.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/07/sky-news-twitter-clampdown?cat=media&type=article
  4. @fieldproducer Hey! I thought you Sky tweeps weren't allowed tweet anymore unless @rupertmurdoch deems it acceptable!! #censorship?
  5. A Reuters employee, however, realized Murdoch would be unlikely to support such a policy - based on his own Twitter activity.
  6. Don't know what @SkyNews thinks about promoting links to rival news orgs, but @rupertmurdoch seems to think it's OK. twitter.com/#!/rupertmurdo…
  7. Tonight @RupertMurdoch tweeted:

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