Jamaica Gleaner’s Twitter Account Suspended
May 19, 2021 | Hopeton O’Connor-Dennie |
The Twitter organization has suspended the account for The Gleaner Company located at 21 North Street, Kingston, Jamaica W. I.
Copyright
The Gleaner has confirmed that copyright infringement is the reason for the suspension. This suspension occured this morning. The actuall time is not known up to press time.
Headline
Vision Newspaper has been told that it relates to “Headline infringement”. Efforts to contact the Gleaner has been met with “No Comment’ … from a trusted source.
It is not immediately known when this suspension will be lifted.
Talking
The Gleaner has said they are talking to Twitter and cooperating with their investigations. Stay tuned to Vision Newsapaper for the latest on this developing story.
Social Media
Social media sources are a buzz to see that the mighty has fallen. The Gleaner is over 150 years old. This is no back street or just come media source. It is one of the biggest and longest continuously publishing houses in the Western Hemisphere. Many media sources have come and died and the Old Lady of North Street, as she is locally called, has survived them all. The Gleaner has nine lives.
Commentary
This is a not too subtle reminder to us all that we have to take copyright seriously. On my part I have never failed to educate my colleagues on the vexed issue of copyright material. Let us use the fall of the Gleaner’s Twitter Account as a warning to all of us. A word of warning is good enough to the wise.
Enough said!
Hopeton O’Connor-Dennie is a veteran journalist who is also a poet and has been a victim of copyright infringement.
