I agree that negative articles are inevitable if you get influence, but I think there are various angles these negative articles might come from, and this is a particularly bad one.
The Soros point is an excellent analogy, but I worry we could be headed for something worse than that. Soros gets criticism from people like Orban but praise from orgs like the FT and Politico. Meanwhile, with EA, people like Orban don’t give a damn about EA but Politico is already publishing scathing pieces.
I don’t think reputation management is as hard as is often supposed in EA. I think it’s just it hasn’t been prioritised much until recently (e.g., CEA didn’t have a head of comms until September 2022). I can imagine many national organisations such as mine would love to have a Campaign Officer or something to help us manage it, but we don’t have the funding.
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I agree that negative articles are inevitable if you get influence, but I think there are various angles these negative articles might come from, and this is a particularly bad one.
The Soros point is an excellent analogy, but I worry we could be headed for something worse than that. Soros gets criticism from people like Orban but praise from orgs like the FT and Politico. Meanwhile, with EA, people like Orban don’t give a damn about EA but Politico is already publishing scathing pieces.
I don’t think reputation management is as hard as is often supposed in EA. I think it’s just it hasn’t been prioritised much until recently (e.g., CEA didn’t have a head of comms until September 2022). I can imagine many national organisations such as mine would love to have a Campaign Officer or something to help us manage it, but we don’t have the funding.