{"id":44,"date":"2008-10-08T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/?p=44"},"modified":"2008-10-08T15:55:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T14:55:16","slug":"quick-post-about-confidentiality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/10\/08\/quick-post-about-confidentiality\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick post about confidentiality"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Obvious, I suppose, but as soon as I got my BBC staff pass I started to think differently about what I say here on the blog about the BBC. I’m not worried about upsetting the management or about getting the sack (I don’t really work here – I’m a freelancer) but I am seriously worried about messing things up for the people I speak to. For the record, no one has said anything to me so far that I would classify as inflammatory or mean or against regulations. It’s just that some people have said the kind of open, honest thing that you know might wind up a colleague, make a delicate negotiation more difficult or just be a bit embarrassing.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the people I’m working with here – Nick Reynolds (editor of the BBC Internet blog<\/a>), Tony Ageh<\/a> (something important in BBC Future Media &Technology) and Jem Stone <\/a>(from Monday something important at BBC Audio & Music) for instance – are urging me to be less timid. “To hell with them! Put the boot in! They can always get great jobs at Channel 4<\/a> or ITV <\/a>or eBay<\/a>!” (or maybe not). So, for the time being, I think what you’re going to get here will be robust and critical of the organisation and its policies, even of management decisions but probably quite polite about the individuals I meet and the things they tell me. So sue me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obvious, I suppose, but as soon as I got my BBC staff pass I started to think differently about what I say here on the blog about the BBC. I’m not worried about upsetting the management or about getting the sack (I don’t really work here – I’m a freelancer) but I am seriously worried […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,8,26,18,27,28],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bbc","tag-commonplatform","tag-confidentiality","tag-openness","tag-policy","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}