It requires you to filter what you publicly and officially say. “You”, plural, the collective, can speak as freely as you like …in private. But if you, individually, want to be able to say anything you like to anyone, you had better accept the consequences.
“The mystery is why the community doesn’t implement obvious solutions. Hiring PR people is an obvious solution. There’s a posting somewhere in which Anna Salamon argues that there is some sort of moral hazard involved in professional PR, but never explains why, and everyone agrees with her anyway.”
“”You”, plural, the collective, can speak as freely as you like …in private.”
Suppose a large part of the community wants to speak as freely as it likes in public, and the mystery is solved.
We even managed to touch upon the moral hazard involved in professional PR—insofar as it is a filter between what you believe and what you say publicly.
Semantics.
Good PR requires you to put a filter between what you think is true and what you say.
It requires you to filter what you publicly and officially say. “You”, plural, the collective, can speak as freely as you like …in private. But if you, individually, want to be able to say anything you like to anyone, you had better accept the consequences.
“The mystery is why the community doesn’t implement obvious solutions. Hiring PR people is an obvious solution. There’s a posting somewhere in which Anna Salamon argues that there is some sort of moral hazard involved in professional PR, but never explains why, and everyone agrees with her anyway.”
“”You”, plural, the collective, can speak as freely as you like …in private.”
Suppose a large part of the community wants to speak as freely as it likes in public, and the mystery is solved.
We even managed to touch upon the moral hazard involved in professional PR—insofar as it is a filter between what you believe and what you say publicly.
Theres a hazard in having no filters, as well. One thing being bad doesn’t make another good.