{"id":13288,"date":"2009-09-28T11:35:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T09:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/?p=13288"},"modified":"2009-09-28T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T09:37:00","slug":"i-giornalisti-non-devono-avere-opinioni-individuali-sui-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2009\/09\/28\/i-giornalisti-non-devono-avere-opinioni-individuali-sui-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"I giornalisti non devono avere opinioni individuali sui social media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Il Washington Post ha recapitato ai suoi giornalisti una policy per scrivere sui social media, (via Techrunch<\/a> e via Paidcontent<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"3903103636_e7554f5131\"\u201cAll Washington Post journalists relinquish some of the personal privileges of private citizens. Post journalists must recognize that any content associated with them in an online social network is, for practical purposes, the equivalent of what appears beneath their bylines in the newspaper or on our website.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s an excerpt from The Washington Post\u2019s new social media guidelines. PaidContent has the entire thing<\/a>. You really should read it, because it\u2019s a hoot.<\/p>\n

These guidelines came about because Raju Narisetti, a WaPo editor, had some tweets recently that revealed *gasp* that he had opinions about issues. When word leaked out that he had his own opinions and was sharing them on Twitter, apparently the WaPo top brass scrambled quickly to get this under control. That included Narisetti deleting his Twitter account. Pathetic.<\/p>\n

So pathetic, that I\u2019m kind of shocked that The Washington Post\u2019s Omblog was allowed to publish<\/a> all the details.<\/p>\n

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Obviously, WaPo is doing this to try and maintain what it perceives to be its journalistic integrity. That\u2019s great. But as we\u2019ve discussed recently<\/a>, the idea that any kind of reporting lacks any kind of bias on some level is laughable. It\u2019s fine if you want your organization to only present the facts with no opinions, but the notion that those reporters do not have their own opinions is absurd. WaPo can try to hide those opinions all they want, but they exist, regardless.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another excerpt:<\/p>\n

\u201cPost journalists must refrain from writing, tweeting or posting anything\u2014including photographs or video\u2014that could be perceived as reflecting political, racial, sexist, religious or other bias or favoritism that could be used to tarnish our journalistic credibility. This same caution should be used when joining, following or friending any person or organization online.\u201d Basically, if you are a human being, you must not show yourself as such online.<\/p>\n

The whole thing is ridiculous, but my favorite bit is the last part. You can\u2019t even friend or follow people known to be affiliated with some movement or cause, or presumably is even just a biased person.<\/p>\n

This has all come up before<\/a>, and it will undoubtedly come up again. Twitter is just the latest and probably easiest ways for people to reveal that they have their own opinions online. But this is also related to the issue of Facebook pictures getting people fired or just not hired from jobs. It\u2019s not that companies\/employers are asking their underlings to stop having opinions, or stop having fun at parties, they just want to make sure it\u2019s hidden from the public. It\u2019s basically \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u201d applied in a different sector.<\/p>\n

Again, it\u2019s certainly reasonable to ask journalists to remove their opinions from pieces if that\u2019s the kind of news you\u2019re aiming for. But when you start getting into what they say on their personal online accounts, public or not, things get awfully murky. How deep does that rabbit hole go? Maybe those journalists should also refrain from stating their opinions at dinner parties. Maybe they shouldn\u2019t be allowed to laugh at Michael Moore\u2019s new movie when it comes out. Actually, they probably shouldn\u2019t even be allowed to see it. They should also be careful any movies in their queue on Netflix. And any books they buy on Amazon. And any music on iTunes.<\/p>\n

Hell, they should really just disconnect their computers from the Internet. And maybe stop leaving the office. Also, they should probably just stop having opinions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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