George Stephanopoulos generally does a good job conducting interviews on his Sunday program, but this strikes me as a truly terrible idea:

Next Tuesday, I'm trying something new.

Catch my "twitterview" with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Tuesday, March 17 at 12 noon on Twitter.

We're going to attempt to conduct a full interview exclusively on Twitter -- complete with the 140-character limit!

It's bad enough that we boil down every issue - even the most nuanced and complex ones - into 15 second sound bytes so they can pass for news.  But why on earth would we want to take that process even further by trying to boil down an interview into 140 character questions and answers? Because we can? Because this is the way ABC News thinks it can "connect" with the Holy Grail of media executives everywhere, otherwise known as a younger audience?

Twitter is an interesting new form of communication and, as we've seen demonstrated recently by members of Congress and others, it certainly has its uses. But conducting serious interviews in 140 character increments is almost certainly not one of them.

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