Tweeting a Funeral?

Tweeting a Funeral?
This story is about a little three year old boy who was killed tragically at an ice cream shop by a car crashing through the window. The reporters asked if they could do a story on it at the funeral and the family members said that would be all right. Only one of the reporters was able to make the funeral so he used a new program called Twitter to send live updates to their sites. I’m all for technology but I think that is very disrespectful to the family to be sending text messages during the funeral. I don’t get why he couldn’t have just written down some notes and then posted them on the site when the funeral was over. It would have been the same notes just you would have had to read them at a later time, plus it would have been a lot less disrespectful. At the end of the story Mr. Fisch says, “We must learn to use the new tools at our disposal. Yes, there are going to be times we make mistakes, just as we do in our newspaper. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try something. It means we need to learn to do it well. That is our mission.” I think what he said is completely appropriate, just because we don’t do things perfect doesn’t mean we should do them at all. If we were to just stop everything that we were doing that wasn’t perfect we wouldn’t be able to do anything because we don’t do anything perfect it is near impossible. There are always tiny flaws, especially in technology, but I think that eventually we will get it right.