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The Australian's Sally Jackson writes that the sacking of The Age's Catherine Deveny "has again demonstrated how vulnerable news outlets are to embarrassment from the tweeting of their journalists". At least Deveny's tweets from the Logies -- including one where she said she hoped 11-year-old Bindi Irwin "gets laid" -- weren't published on The Age's front page, which is what some news website are doing with tweets from their staff and contributors. As I've already noted, this is a dangerous practice as it potentially puts the paper in the position of publisher of the comments. How long before we see the first big Twitter defamation case in Australia?