Originally Posted by
tdracer
... and to be skeptical of just about anything that is reported until you have some sort of validation as to its accuracy and/or relevancy.
100% Agree, increasingly so.
But the media screaming that the sky is falling isn't helpful or constructive.
well... looks like it could be
necessary nowadays as another way to control greedy corporations and mitigate unscrupulous managers, when normal supervision fails or act too slow. Not new that media is the 4th power. Friend of mine told me about their corporate Risk Assessment Process. Gives Managers guidance what effect, consequences a risky decision can show. His corporation includes something as "damage level of media response".
So in that sense media echo can have a helpful, even preventing effect.