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> It's hard to be candid and open if what you say might end up distorted in the media and without you having an ability to defend yourself. Distorted by the me

by rexpop 7y ago

> It's hard to be candid and open if what you say might end up distorted in the media and without you having an ability to defend yourself. Distorted by the media? That's the point of "leaks": to make transparent leaderships' opinions verbatim. The firms that control our lives should not be allowed to confer behind closed doors.

dmix 7y ago
The media constantly misconstrues or completely invents whole stories based on small pieces of information that are presented without context. I don’t see how that is helpful to society. I’m not against whistleblowing but I completely understand why someone would choose not to engage in that, since they are basically volunteering information knowing it may very well be taken very seriously when it was done throw away off hand comment or shared without underlying meanings being properly attached.
- rexpop 7y ago
  Don't throw the baby of internal memos out with the bathwater of biased commentary on them. It sounds like you're against whistleblowing.
  - dmix 7y ago
    I don't see the connection between leaders not want to have open ended meetings with thousands of people and being against whistleblowing... sorry. Nothing wrong with leaders preferring more controlled medium where they can careful and clearly state what they are saying, or preferring such meetings with smaller groups of people in a smaller company. Especially because we're working with the assumption it will be leaked in a raw form otherwise. Workers should be whistleblowing based on negative events, company projects, or misbehaviour which they have knowledge of and see in the workplace (which can be through other people at work). Which is quite different from rehashing some comment made during TGIF to reporters. If we're going to villianize people for comments made in open-ended forums then it will defeat the purpose of the forum and make people extra cautious. Which makes them no different than PR-speak-riddled internal memos.

by rexpop 7y ago

dmix 7y ago

The media constantly misconstrues or completely invents whole stories based on small pieces of information that are presented without context. I don’t see how that is helpful to society. I’m not against whistleblowing but I completely understand why someone would choose not to engage in that, since they are basically volunteering information knowing it may very well be taken very seriously when it was done throw away off hand comment or shared without underlying meanings being properly attached.

rexpop 7y ago
Don't throw the baby of internal memos out with the bathwater of biased commentary on them. It sounds like you're against whistleblowing.
- dmix 7y ago
  I don't see the connection between leaders not want to have open ended meetings with thousands of people and being against whistleblowing... sorry. Nothing wrong with leaders preferring more controlled medium where they can careful and clearly state what they are saying, or preferring such meetings with smaller groups of people in a smaller company. Especially because we're working with the assumption it will be leaked in a raw form otherwise. Workers should be whistleblowing based on negative events, company projects, or misbehaviour which they have knowledge of and see in the workplace (which can be through other people at work). Which is quite different from rehashing some comment made during TGIF to reporters. If we're going to villianize people for comments made in open-ended forums then it will defeat the purpose of the forum and make people extra cautious. Which makes them no different than PR-speak-riddled internal memos.