The Inbox....

Yesterday, FTVLive posted a Patron Only story about an Atlanta station, in which management is pitting employees against each other over social media. It also showed you the pitfalls of doing so.

We got a number of emails on that story and many of those emails thanked us for sharing it.

This is one email we got from an on-air talent in South Florida that weighed in on what was happening in the A-T-L.

WOW.

I just read your WGCL story. Say what you will about XXXX (station redacted) but I’ve never been pressured to up my game via social media nor have I heard of others being pressured. I didn’t get into this to be a model and most of those I work with did not either. If anything- management everywhere should be asking us to up our game when it comes to JOURNALISM and good storytelling.

That email is sickening, but thank you for sharing it.

And here is another email from a newsie that wanted to weigh in:

Scott

The WGCL memo on social media is a living document on why that station and so many others are so screwed up.

Any smart news executive should view social media as one of the biggest nightmares of their job How many careers have been wiped out (or should have been) by one bad post.

Employees can post whatever they want at any hour of the day, drunk or sober, on multiple platforms and it’s a reflection of your news operation. And there’s no way to police it. There used to be cone thing known as the editorial process.

And WGCL and others encourage this?

If someone links to a story on your station website where you sell ads and can make money, great! If not it’s 100% ego and should not be rewarded with memos praising it

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