Getting carried away

IN Media Watch Briefs | 14/04/2013

Heard on TV channels this weekend on the impact or non-impact of social media: Sam Pitroda in an interview on Doordarshan: “Social media is going to be the new mainstream media of the future..newspapers are a dying breed".  A social media enthusiast on NDTV: "you don't have credibility if you don't have a Twitter account... “  Since when did social media take over from mainstream media?  And since  when did Twitter become the  test of credibility?