One Vote Against KY3's Twitter Reporting "Experiment"

KY3's Dave Catanese announced this afternoon via Twitter that he was trying something new:

An experiment: Reporting on Nixon's budget cuts via Twitter: http://bit.ly/19HLmj

For his experiment in reporting, Catanese simply pasted together tweets from Missourinet, the Post-Dispatch's Virginia Young and taxpayer-financed partisan attacks from Lt. Governor Peter Kinder's Chief of Staff, Richard AuBuchon. No original reporting, documents regarding the budget decisions, response to the partisan shots or any other additional information was included to inform readers about what actually happened today.

Mostly, I struggle to understand how reliance on 140-character tweets -- a full third of which are from a partisan source --  is the best way to inform readers about a topic as complicated and important as $200 million in budget cuts. It's a serious matter, and warrants serious journalism. 

Maybe I'm missing the charm of a news story made up entirely of tweets -- but unless this sort of post is accompanied by additional information that actually helps illuminate a topic, I hope it doesn't become a regular feature.