‘Stay Off of the Social Networks! Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram and Blogs!’


See the headline above? That is verbatim advice given by the Uniformed EMTs, Paramedics & Fire Inspector’s Union to its members in a recent newsletter, according to the New York Post. Some good advice right there — particularly given the Post’s recent rampage through union members’ social feeds.

If you pay attention to the Murdoch tabloid, you probably noticed that Twitter has made its cover three days out of the past week — for all the wrong reasons. On March 18, in a story coverlined “SON BURN,” the paper trumpeted the “Vile, racist rants of FDNY commish’s EMT kid”:

The first-responder son of city Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano has unleashed a sickening slew of tweets that target everyone from Jews to blacks to the poor.

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