Social media new kid on the block: debate

In an age when news reports were sourced from tweets by public figures, social media can't be wishd away, speakers at a debate said today.
While observing television as a visually potent medium can never become redundant, the participants, renowned media professionals in the country and abroad, pointed out how even tv clips can be uploaded on social media sites and grab eyeballs.
"So social media and electronic media are complimenting each other and not usurping roles," they said.
BBC's Brendan Miller, Javed Umair of Dawn, Rob Hopkin, BBC, and Samuel Ward Packard, USA, besides Paroma Roy Chowdhury (Google, India) were the jury members of the debate as part of the debating summit 'Calcutta's Festival of the Spoken Word' organised by 'Calcutta Debating Circle.