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Gatekeepers And Media

Gatekeepers
A typical work day for me starts with a five minute walk to the train. The first thing I grab is the free AM newspaper. This is the first gatekeeper encounter of the day, as I am sure everything or mostly everything has been sugar-coated. Some stories may be true, some other may be incomplete, but the fact of the matter is that we do not want to hear too much about anything. Gatekeepers number two, my bosses. Today, they decided that every single one of their phone calls would get dispatched to me. In addition to being a receptionist, I also had to work on what they called “A set of very easy projects.” One of the projects consisted in finding logos and pictures of certain products that were needed for a sales pitch presentation. Gatekeeper number three comes around --- the IT department’s secret weapon “Websense.”
Websense is a program that blocks many Websites that are not related to work. I communicated my problem to the IT department, but they cannot......


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