Elon Musk, Twitter and the Media
- While I understand there's a learning curve for Elon Musk in his quest to run Twitter, and being human he will make mistakes and possibly even change his mind...
- I know some will find this shocking, and they will ask; Who does he think he is, to change his mind about something after learning more about it?
- LOL :)
- But honestly, I don't think I am a Fanboy of Elon's just someone trying to be fair, and I think he definately is being held up to the light and scrutinized pretty heavily, and carefully, and he is a human after all. (not an AI LOL)
- The world will just have to learn to accept the truth, whenever a human is in charge, mistakes will be made, and biases will be shown..
- These are human characteristics, so we all should expect these things to happen. If we were in charge, I think many of us would make the same mistakes.
Journalist
- My advice to journalists: I know your doing what you think is your job, but always pointing out the bad, and never the good, doesn't make people like you, and more importantly it doesn’t look fair and balanced.
- And isn’t Fair and Balanced the Goal?
A Michigan Sandwich
- Michigan is a state, in the Midwest Region of the United States of America.
- And people in the MidWest are often mocked for their very proper pronunciation of words and what others view as excessive politeness.
- So you could say politeness is part of the culture of the Midwest just like food is a part of many cultures.
- An interesting part of this culture is that when Midwesterners give people negative feedback, they make it a point to give them positive feedback also.
- So for those of you who have never heard of a sandwich, it is two pieces of bread with something in between, like meat.
- So in a conversational sense a sandwich is three things you say to a person.
- So in keeping with our topic of politeness and combining it with our interest in being fair a Michigan Sandwich is three topics, one positive thing to say about someone, one negative thing, and a then a second positive thing.
- So the Take Home Lesson here for journalists is say something positive about Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, then something negative, and then something positive.
- I think articles written according to this formula would be viewed as more fair and balanced.
- And I think that without this balanced approach journalists just seem negative and biased, and that’s a bad look for a journalist.
- You May feel that a Michigan Sandwich is excessively polite, but when people think your biased you need to overcompensate to shift perceptions in the opposite direction from bias.
- And personally positives or nice words don’t make the negative words less negative, they get the persons attention and make them feel you are being fair.
- Also remember that fair and balanced reporting is interpreted by most of us on the planet as saying what's good and what's bad in terms of facts.
Last words and the last bites of this post..
- I hope people in journalism start using the Michigan Sandwich to make their stories on Elon Musk and Twitter more Fair and Balanced.
- It is very important that the words sprinkled on top of the story sandwich aren’t so bitter that we spit it out right away. This will make it easier for your readers to bite into and chew on your stories. This allows us to savor the meat of those stories by chewing on it and digesting it properly in our minds.
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