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Internal organizational politics is the bane of a journalist’s life. The politics of an organization can prevent an article ever getting going, or worse, can ensure it fails. The last thing you need as a journalist is to discover that your entire article is really just part of an ongoing battle between two units with hidden agendas. If you’re a journalist within a large journal or magazine you should have a reasonable understanding of its politics, but beware a whole new world unfolding before your eyes when you get promoted into the role. And don’t say or think ‘I don’t do politics’; that’s about as realistic as saying ‘I don’t do breathing’. Besides, it’s not necessarily a question of whether you do politics, it can be a matter of whether politics is done to you.
If you’re an employee who sometimes manages publications you should similarly have an understanding of the workings of your group. The worst situation for this is, of course, being a newly employed or contract journalist. Experience helps a great deal, but you still have to gain it. The best advice we ever received on this was to not trust anyone initially and to try to understand the benefits and costs to the decider of each decision taken with regard to your project. This might seem underhand, but if you just sail blindly on and find you are a pawn in someone else’s game, your team and your CV won’t thank you. Don’t appear overtly wary or disbelieving , this will not help you succeed either but, until you are sure of your ground, don’t rush into agreeing or disagreeing with anything without taking time to consider your decision. Sadly, taking too long with your considerations will result in your being labeled indecisive – but then no one said journalism was easy. Until you understand the politics of the journal or magazine, for which you are managing a project, don’t rush into major decisions based on the advice of individuals.
From the perspective of a journalist, I would rather say that freedom of thought and freedom of expression depend wholly upon the capability of individuals to work out the right to distinguish, consider and evaluate for them. Through the years, threats to these organized offenses, government intelligence agencies, abusive psychiatric practices and international aggression, have been the targets of examinations.
There are reported stories that deceitful bureaucrats and criminals have sought to be silent. In the end, its insistence has helped motivate and endorse open government measures that not only have revolutionized probing reporting methods in Europe, America and somewhere else, but also prolonged the public‘s right to be acquainted with, sense and judge for themselves. Yet, this is only the beginning of a far more dynamic process, for it is from these freedoms that the ingenious and humane answers to society‘s utmost challenges spring.
The world pulls no punches in enlightening what‘s erroneous in the social order and those who are answerable, yet it strives for balance, showing specific actions being done to bring frankness, peace, respect and wisdom to the communities and countries of the globe. No matter how troubled the present picture may come into view, how distrusted political bodies can grow to be in the eyes of the community, or how technical and insincere government officials can from time to time precede, the nature makes one point in spite of all and it is something can be done about it.
