[Hopkins, Winchell]
Part of an occasional series about yours truly.
Q. Too many people buy into this blog, and you enable liars at times. Why don't you act more like a journalist and less like a gossipy provocateur?
A. No doubt, posters lie here; that's the downside of allowing anonymous comments. For obvious reasons, I can't require that people post under their real names. Where I know someone has been untruthful, I correct the information. When I think an assertion is unlikely, I'll say so, and explain why.
But there's a vast gray area beyond. Crowdsourcing is an imperfect means of getting to the truth, although it does often work.
This blog might be improved if I made it my full-time job. But it does not pay enough to warrant that much attention. Few blogs do.
Most important: The record shows the challenges I face. I began publishing this blog in September 2007, with this post. Since then, several other writers have started competing blogs, then quickly abandoned them. Gannettoid is the only one standing, and it is closer to a traditional website than a blog.
I always welcome suggestions and critiques. And I always strive to do a better job each day.
Got a question? Leave it in the comments section, below. You can also e-mail FAQs About Me via jimhopkins[at]gmail[dot-com]; see Tipsters Anonymous Policy in the green sidebar, upper right.
[Photo: Walter Winchell, called inventor of the gossip column]
There is more truth on this blog, than lies. I first read about the furloughs here, and I have learned other things for the first time reading other items. Quite frankly, I find these attacks on Jim boring, repetitive and not addressing the subject of this blog, which is our company. Yes, there are lies posted here. I take everything with suspicion because of the nature of this blog, but a surprising number of things I initially dismissed as lies turned out only to be horribly true.
ReplyDelete6:28 -- Here, here. I think all the anti-Jim posts are just another lame attempt to discredit the blog. Only thing is, those of us who are long-time readers are wise to the game.
ReplyDeleteThe best way to handle the trolls is to ignore them altogether. When we engage them, they just come back for more.
If everybody stops responding to the posts from trolls they will disappear, as they will realize they are having no impact.
It tells me a lot about the character of Gannett management when the hired trolls employ offensive homophobic attacks from their arsenal. That's not the kind of company anybody should want to work for. Unless you're a troll, of course.
ReplyDeleteJim is a nutplate who was thrown out of Gannett.
ReplyDeleteAt first glance in the recent comments, faqs looks like ... well, something else.
ReplyDeleteThe only people thrown out of Gannett are those who refuse to undergo the company mandatory conformity-of-thought plan, also known as the my-way-or-the-highway style of management. The most successful Digital Age companies and those ranked among the best to work for encourage their employees to challenge institutional mindsets. Gannett considers that kind of out-of-box thinking as heresy and disloyalty. As long as it does, it will never attract the kind of people needed to lead the company into the future.
ReplyDeleteGannett was the only company I ever worked for that when management brought to light a problem that management took a greater hit then the problem. This resulted in manager excepting things as is and avoiding the hassel.
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