Re:Social Media Guidelines for the Times Newsroom
by matt4077 on Friday October 13, 2017 @04:03PM
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It's also the sort of old-school professional integrity that feels almost out-of-place these days.
I mean–Imagine a life of constant vigilance against, for example, the corrosive corruption that sneaks in via the power of your employer's name to get your billing snafu at Comcast escalated.
And then every actual contact with the general population is just a litany of insults, attempts to tie your work to some grand conspiracy "the media" is engaged in, or accusations of taking money from the "global warming scientists-environmentalist complex".
C.f: the idea that the New York Times (first published 1851) is a CIA front operation, founded by a 1950's propaganda effort. Peddled downthreat (hopefully) with the "you're naive if you don't believe" shtick.
I mean–Imagine a life of constant vigilance against, for example, the corrosive corruption that sneaks in via the power of your employer's name to get your billing snafu at Comcast escalated.
And then every actual contact with the general population is just a litany of insults, attempts to tie your work to some grand conspiracy "the media" is engaged in, or accusations of taking money from the "global warming scientists-environmentalist complex".
C.f: the idea that the New York Times (first published 1851) is a CIA front operation, founded by a 1950's propaganda effort. Peddled downthreat (hopefully) with the "you're naive if you don't believe" shtick.