R.I.P Good Journalism

The power of the internet is that everyone can be a journalist. The downside of the internet is that everyone can be a journalist.

The power of internet is that speed upon which people get news from any event. The downside is the speed. People get used to speed, and that creates cycle to create news fastly, which then can lead into incomplete, potentially erranous news.

The competition to get news out is the new goldrush. This means having news is the news. Speed over content. Correctness, truthfulness of them is seconday, and if there are any corrections, not many read those - corrections are not news anymore. If people spend time to send the corrections, the writer tends to add the correction in a form "n.n send this: blahblah" - aka not admitting the mistake on the first place but pointing out someone sending it (this is same as saying "sorry if i have offended anyone" - the word "if" points out not taking responsibilit) and bringing totally outsider into a limelight. Admitting mistakes would be crucial to gain trustworthiness.

Internal politics, cloak and dagger - world

What would Batman do a situation like this?

That was what came into my mind when I heard one manager confessing that he cannot fix one problem at his employer since the person to whom he would need to say about that, is equal level in organizational hierarchy to him. So there can be constant problems presented by situation, mocking etc but not telling the problem to stop this due being scared to talk to other person who has a same title.

Let that sink in for the moment, and then repeat it:

"Organization, and people within, can suffer when a manager makes a decision to refuse telilng other manager some things" Which one from those two is more important?

Got it?

Who is to blame on this kind of situation? the original wrongdoer? the manager who is scared? organization?

Unfortunately these kind of situations are not rare in corprate world. The twisted picture of successful person supports cloak and dagger, stomping into feet, extrovert, talking rather than doing. It is also difficult to see this, since in short term such a behaviour looks successful and thus the path one should take.

It should start from the top, to punish such behavior. The below video shows the correct way to react - preventative would be always best but sometimes reaction is needed and this is the way to do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaqpoeVgr8U

Do you care about your (social) network?

World has been changing a bit, actually it changes all the time. We used to have network of people around us, immediate family, neighbours, classmates, work mates. This has changed due ability to reach out fmor the physical homebase, traveling, calling, sending cards, internet. Due the connected nature via internet, our network can be much greater than it used to be - with shorter amount of time than otherwise. Also the value of your network makes us more valuable. It is quite common that deals, knowledge are based on trust - and that can be based on who can vote for you.

Trust.

Before being trusted, one needs to gain trust. It can take years to get it. It is said that network is built before it is needed. It is a social network after all.

Social.

What does it mean being social Should the extrovert behaviour then be preferred? One should know that introvert is not same as shy.

There has been interesting studies, thoughts, about how people change their social network when becoming older, even lessening the amount of people on it, becoming more lone (but not lonely) wolf. This is interesting when comparing the youth, when trying to seek who we are, common acceptance and such. Yet, animals do the same - after initial childhood they are exepcted to fly out from the nest. This essentially means we actually are exepcted to live like introverts want to live. Being together with other people was for seeking safety and security. So the introverts are the brave ones, and not the one who move to big cities as they are “just” seeking the safety?

Caring.

Now, it is important to nurture the connection, and not only utilize the network when you need it. That way you need network of altruistic givers and never reveal the sources if wanting not to be seen as exploitater of other people. It may not always feel good to help people who always exploit others. Do you care about your (social) network?