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Twitter Trouble

Visit any campaign web site and you'll find social and new media tools being used to get the message out. Journalists are using some of those same tools, but the candidates they cover aren't happy about it. Ben Philpott filed this report for KUT News and the Tribune.

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Visit any campaign web site and you'll find social and new media tools being used to get the message out. Journalists are using some of those same tools, but the candidates they cover aren't happy about it. Ben Philpott filed this report for KUT News and the Tribune.

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