A brief collection of your tweets from John Cook's explanation of what the Rob Ford crack-cocaine scandal says about modern journalism.

Cook says we should trust reporters. When they witness an event or artifact, we take it at face value. #cjfjtalk

Cook says we should trust reporters. When they witness an event or artifact, we take it at face value. #cjfjtalk

@johnjcook It bothered me we could not get the video but many stories based on what reporters saw. Not uncommon. #CJFjtalk

Dvorkin says maybe even 5 years ago, people would have been more inclined to believe it because the Star and Gawker wrote it . #cjfjtalk

On the internet it's "pics or it didn't happen" says @johnjcook #cjfjtalk

#CJFjtalk A lot of people won't believe the story even if they could see the video "Ford truthers" @johnjcook

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