An effective defense of oneself in the eyes of general public requires: - good writing skills, including the ability to logically organize and motivate your arguments, and to keep your presentation short and to the point - some level of diplomacy and political thinking
This is pretty DAMN hard! I am in the business, sort of - quite a bit of my time is spent in written communications aimed at convincing people to give me or my students money or give my students jobs/university admission, etc. I am telling you - it takes years of experience to learn this sort of writing. A person off the street does not have that experience, so they will just shoot themselves in the foot one way or the other, given a public forum.
People who have the ability to perform at the level comparable to that of professional journalists are either professional journalists themselves or other people who are experienced in PR process, and many already have public venues to present their side of the story. Thus, it's another case when rich get richer and poor get poorer.
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timeasmymeasure
OK, let's talk seriously
Date: 2007-08-09 11:07 pm (UTC)- good writing skills, including the ability to logically organize and motivate your arguments, and to keep your presentation short and to the point
- some level of diplomacy and political thinking
This is pretty DAMN hard! I am in the business, sort of - quite a bit of my time is spent in written communications aimed at convincing people to give me or my students money or give my students jobs/university admission, etc. I am telling you - it takes years of experience to learn this sort of writing. A person off the street does not have that experience, so they will just shoot themselves in the foot one way or the other, given a public forum.
People who have the ability to perform at the level comparable to that of professional journalists are either professional journalists themselves or other people who are experienced in PR process, and many already have public venues to present their side of the story. Thus, it's another case when rich get richer and poor get poorer.