9: In your bid to be trusted, don’t take the View From Nowhere; instead, tell people where you’re coming from. Treating people as a public means refusing to float “above” them. Instead of claiming that you have no view, no stake, no perspective, no (sorry for the academic term) situated self, try to level with the users and let them know where you are coming from. As David Weinberger puts it. “transparency is the new objectivity.” You may find that trust is easier to negotiate if you don’t claim the View from Nowhere, but instead tell them where you’re coming from. (Here’s my attempt to do exactly that as a critic.)
Jay Rosen gives magisterial advice to aspiring journalists, and it’s a great read.
via The Journalists Formerly Known as the Media: My Advice to the Next Generation
Source: jayrosen.posterous.com
Social anthropologist, clairvoyant, postfuturist.
