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...piece, a meditation on the decision-making process, has unsurprisingly been read as a political signifier. For some, it embodies the President’s thoughtful approach to governing; for others, it ironically captures his characteristic indecision and lack of achievement in office. As Ed Pilkington noted in The Guardian, the Ruscha piece “pretty much sums up the 44th presidency as seen through the eyes of Fox News...
...this stage, the Guardian was still unable to name Trafigura or shed further light on the kerfuffle, but the paper's editor, Alan Rusbridger (@arusbridger), continued to lob his own carefully crafted tweets into the mix. "#Guardian hoping to get into court today to challenge ban by #carter-ruck on reporting parliament. Watch this space," he posted. He informed the Twitterverse that a court hearing was set for the afternoon. Then came two jubilant tweets: "Victory! #CarterRuck caves-in. No #Guardian court hearing. Media can now report Paul Farrelly's PQ about #Trafigura. More soon on Guardian." And "Thanks...
...Trafigura and Carter-Ruck did not take into account the power of Twitterers. By dawn in Britain, the words Trafigura, Carter-Ruck and Guardian, often accompanied by the # sign that enables Twitter users to click through to collected tweets on a tagged subject, began to crop up on the site, elbowing their way into the top-10 trending topics by midmorning. "What is Trafigura anyway????" wondered 17-year-old @ClaireMacIsaac. An immediate response came from @iannutt, helpfully directing her to an earlier Guardian story that detailed Trafigura's involvement in what the newspaper described as "one of the worst pollution...
...entirely, says Stephen Shotnes, a media-law specialist with the London law firm Simons Muirhead & Burton. "It's been enshrined in our law for 300 years that there's freedom of reporting of parliamentary proceedings. I would like to think that what would have happened is that the Guardian would have trotted off to court today and the injunction would have been lifted anyway. The likely impact of Twitter was to speed up that process," he says. (Read "Brought to You by Twitter...
...That's a question to trouble legislators - and people with secrets to hide - everywhere. But there's one clear lesson from the strange case of Twitter and the Guardian vs. Trafigura and Carter-Ruck. Trying to suppress information in the age of social media is like trying to put out a forest fire with a garden hose...