CSR and the Media

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What News Sources Do You Turn To?

Biased? To what extent?

How do you tune in?

What’s news and what’s not?

Socially Irresponsible Media: Independent News Posters, Trolls, & Troll Farms

Create news postings that may have some element of truth, or not.

Purpose is to influence people through seeding discord and disruption.

Can also be commenters on posts, under various aliases or identities.

But mainstream media has its own biases, too.

Hazards

Affects on mood or personality

Entertainment provides distraction, which permits relief from reality, which flattens mood, or hyperstimulates us, which…

Exacerbates anxiety and affects our sense of reality which…

Compromises our intelligence

Good news: As we confront the real complexity of news and news delivery, we may recover control – if we want to

U. S. News / Media Organizations Serve Few Masters – yet Control Billions

Influential News Reporter – An influencer of His Time: "the most trusted man in America"

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet, philosopher and writer.

You Are Not An Algorithm

But today’s purveyors of news do have your profile, and market their news-bites to keep you entertained and coming back for more.