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Sometimes you should think before you tweet

At the end of Sophocles' Oedipus the King, the chorus sings, "Count no man happy until he's dead." The point isn't that life is hell and the only happiness is found in death; the point is that, until the story is finished, you don't know how it ends.

What's true for human lives is true in lots of more trivial contexts. I don't want movie reviewers to be tweeting their reviews while watching the movie. And I don't want reporters to be tweeting the news — at least not the kind of news that really can wait for another hour.

Case in point: 

http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-new-yorkers-ryan-lizza-became-a-mistaken-poster-boy-for-obamacare

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