The Peoples Press Conference
Jeff Neal
Reference:
MELBER, ARI; The Peoples Press Conference; Nation; 4/6/2009, Vol. 288 Issue 13, p22-24. 3p.
Theme:
With the technology that exists today we can reach the citizens in larger numbers. Journalists ans leaders no long need to guess what the public wants, they can ask them. Through a new website the people can summit questions they want to ask the president or any elected official in the next press conference. these questions are submitted online and then voted on by everyone in the country as to which questions are the most important to be answered.
Summary:
This article discusses the idea of getting the right questions answered by the president during press conferences. New people would be invited to the press conference armed with questions that are the most important to the citizens.
President Obama promised a more open and transparent government, and to make tis happen has invited questions from media that are are new to the press conferences not just allowing questions from the same media members that have been there for years.
The Nation, Washington Times and other media members have created a forum for the public to summit questions to be answered in future press conferences. Everyone can participate, in summiting questions and then voting what questions should be answered by the president. If you have a question you can summit this questions on "Ask The President" on communitycounts.com in the form of a video and then the public will view all the videos and vote as to which questions are the most important to ask the president during the next press conference.
The presidential press conferences of the past have been very exclusive, with only certain media member invited. And the questions needed to be summited ahead of time and the president would know before the press conference started which questions he would answer. This would change in this new forum, a journalist would come to the press conference with a list of the top questions and ask them in priority, without the president knowing what was going to be asked. This would allow for an answer to be given honestly, without time to formulate a standard answer.
Media members have used questions from the public in the past, but there is no way of knowing how many questions they received and had to choose from. They may have only asked a few people and still selected the questions that meet their own criteria.
One would think that the President and other government officials would love this idea because of their commitment during their campaigns that they wanted to be more involved in the public and know what the citizens of the country wanted from the elected officials.
Application to the lesson topic:
In a press conference the politicians have always had the benefit of knowing what the questions were before they were asked. This new idea of generating questions will hold he politicians more accountable to he public. They will have to be more informed on all subjects so they will be able to answer any question asked. The media will also be more involved with the community they live in, they will be interacting daily with citizens to help formulate questions.
Application to Emergency Services:
Emergency service managers should implement similar ideas when conveying information to the communities the live in. If they get out and find out what is important to the community then they will be more prepared deliver messages that the public really needs and ad wants to hear about. To many times leaders have their own agenda instead serving the public they work for.
Jeff Neal
Reference:
MELBER, ARI; The Peoples Press Conference; Nation; 4/6/2009, Vol. 288 Issue 13, p22-24. 3p.
Theme:
With the technology that exists today we can reach the citizens in larger numbers. Journalists ans leaders no long need to guess what the public wants, they can ask them. Through a new website the people can summit questions they want to ask the president or any elected official in the next press conference. these questions are submitted online and then voted on by everyone in the country as to which questions are the most important to be answered.
Summary:
This article discusses the idea of getting the right questions answered by the president during press conferences. New people would be invited to the press conference armed with questions that are the most important to the citizens.
President Obama promised a more open and transparent government, and to make tis happen has invited questions from media that are are new to the press conferences not just allowing questions from the same media members that have been there for years.
The Nation, Washington Times and other media members have created a forum for the public to summit questions to be answered in future press conferences. Everyone can participate, in summiting questions and then voting what questions should be answered by the president. If you have a question you can summit this questions on "Ask The President" on communitycounts.com in the form of a video and then the public will view all the videos and vote as to which questions are the most important to ask the president during the next press conference.
The presidential press conferences of the past have been very exclusive, with only certain media member invited. And the questions needed to be summited ahead of time and the president would know before the press conference started which questions he would answer. This would change in this new forum, a journalist would come to the press conference with a list of the top questions and ask them in priority, without the president knowing what was going to be asked. This would allow for an answer to be given honestly, without time to formulate a standard answer.
Media members have used questions from the public in the past, but there is no way of knowing how many questions they received and had to choose from. They may have only asked a few people and still selected the questions that meet their own criteria.
One would think that the President and other government officials would love this idea because of their commitment during their campaigns that they wanted to be more involved in the public and know what the citizens of the country wanted from the elected officials.
Application to the lesson topic:
In a press conference the politicians have always had the benefit of knowing what the questions were before they were asked. This new idea of generating questions will hold he politicians more accountable to he public. They will have to be more informed on all subjects so they will be able to answer any question asked. The media will also be more involved with the community they live in, they will be interacting daily with citizens to help formulate questions.
Application to Emergency Services:
Emergency service managers should implement similar ideas when conveying information to the communities the live in. If they get out and find out what is important to the community then they will be more prepared deliver messages that the public really needs and ad wants to hear about. To many times leaders have their own agenda instead serving the public they work for.
The day we have a transparent federal government is the day that we stop having wars. I don't think that either will ever happen. The government will always have secrets, and there will always be some country fighting some other country.
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