Live Blogging Osama bin Laden's Slaying

Aspiring online journalists got a real-life lesson in the power of Twitter in the news coverage of the slaying of Osama bin Laden. With news reports that a Twitter user in Abbottabad, Pakinstan unsuspectingly live blogged the takedown of the U.S.'s public enemy number one, students learned the power they hold in thier hands: social networks are just as powerful as news media networks.