Clean, Big and Obvious: Six Billion People Aren't Going Away
I left the last blog hanging on a follow up (which is coming). But it's a holiday and vacation coming up, when I traditionally "go academic" in the blog.
Dirty Little Secret : Clean Big Obvious
The weak link is between "Secret" and "Obvious". The first question you have to ask is "Obvious to Whom?" "Secret to Whom?" Or does a secret only matter to one billion "big and clean" people?
Whom is being Surveyed? This is a question I grew up with, as the oldest kid whose dad was getting a Ph.D. in Journalism at Columbia Missouri - then considered the top J-School and still a giant. I sat as a kid and absorbed dinner conversation between my dad, his Faculty Advisor Will Stephenson, and my great Grandfather, William Freeland. And I was told to finish my peas, and not spread them about the plate, because children were starving in China...
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| "Uncle Will" Stephenson |
Dirty Little Secret : Clean Big Obvious
The weak link is between "Secret" and "Obvious". The first question you have to ask is "Obvious to Whom?" "Secret to Whom?" Or does a secret only matter to one billion "big and clean" people?
Whom is being Surveyed? This is a question I grew up with, as the oldest kid whose dad was getting a Ph.D. in Journalism at Columbia Missouri - then considered the top J-School and still a giant. I sat as a kid and absorbed dinner conversation between my dad, his Faculty Advisor Will Stephenson, and my great Grandfather, William Freeland. And I was told to finish my peas, and not spread them about the plate, because children were starving in China...
