Meta-Comment No. 26

What do you do, when everything - anything - you do is deemed wrong or out? And all attempts to pursue new directions fail? First you stop doing anything. Then you freeze to a complete stop. And then you have only one way left. To go on...

Hope In Our Time

World update: Continued wars in Afghanistan and other afar countries. US, NATO, UN, and EU troops continue their efforts to put a stop to the unrest and ensure peace in our time. The Middle East peace negociations to start this week in USA. The floods in Pakistan to diminish.

PN Strike Status

The Paradoxical News editor-in-chief has had several meetings with the striking journalists at PN this past week. The talks have been positive, but as yet with no permanent solution. The journalist claims remain the same: Permanent locations, job security, and payments in solid cash.

The editor-in-chief would continue the reportings - were it not for the solid black out of computer systems and news services. Yesterday a filed report did not manage to get through the communication barriers. The editor is sorry for any disappointments this might cause to its readers, supporters, and sponsors.

PN Update

Breaking News: The journalists at Paradoxical News have initiated a strike. Their claims are: job security, a permanent work station and job location, payments and fees for their work - and appreciation for their efforts. The editor-in-chief will revert as the situation evolves.

PN Update

Paradoxical News once again moved HQ this week. This time to - at least! - two different locations. One for hardware, and one for software and production unit.

In addition, after the last move the computer and back-up system blacked out - this time totally, and not just as a hibernation break. The PN computers have been hacked on - and subsequently exchanged on several occasions. These new working conditions are the reason for the limited flow of paradoxical news, for which the editor-in-chief excuses.

'I feel like we are running a media centre in the middle of a train station', the editor-in-chief explains, 'but luckily I am fortunate to be surrounded by the hardest and most diligent journalists in the industry, so we well continue for as long as there is staying power,' she states.

Paradoxical Hierarchy

Paradox of the day: A clever man puts his servant ahead of himself, if he wants to go far. A sharp man has two bosses - the one above him he chooses himself; the one below him he doesn't even know. A wise man chooses his servants well.

Nice to Know vs. Need to Know

Apart from the severe human disasters during floods in Pakistan, China and elsewhere killing hundreds of people and leaving countless people homeless - very sad events - July/August are known to be slow news periods. Because everybody is on holiday. Apparently some more than others, judging from Danish politicians being criticised for not participating in political meetings in Europe, like Danish Lene Espersen (C). Or the continuing story of opposition leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt (A) and her husband's tax case. Both subject to stories unveiled by the press as secrets exposed. Both having to stand trial in the public street court of the media.

Luckily we have the story of Chelsea Clinton marrying her love, Marc Mezvinsky, in New York. Although undoubtedly a cheerful story, also a story weighed with the same importance as a flood in Pakistan killing 800 people. In the midst of the sad loss of human lives (important), and the sensational cat fight between opposing political characters based on trustworthyness (not important in a broader perspective, since everybody makes mistakes) - paradoxically the media will give the people, what they want to know. More so than what is important to know.

For further information, please see:

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/07/31/pakistan.flooding.deaths/index.html?hpt=T1

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/31/chelsea.wedding/index.html?hpt=C1

http://paradoxicalnews.blogspot.com/2010/06/liberal-conservative-eu-cat-fight.html

http://paradoxicalnews.blogspot.com/2010/06/to-tax-or-not-to-tax.html