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Intended Audience

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Our news literacy seminars are appropriate for any audience, including corporate, school, community organization, political organization, conference, etc.  We can customize the seminars to your and your organization's preferences,.

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How to Combat Our
​Media-Driven Polarization

The narratives presented by liberal and conservative news organizations on important stories typically are polarized --- each side says the opposite of the other.  This places their audiences in opposite worlds,  unable to discuss political issues. 

This has a very destructive impact on society.  Friends and family sever ties over political disagreements.  Policymakers fail to find common ground.  Employees bring their political disagreements to work.  And corporate leaders take sides on polarized issues, alienating employees and customers.  
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In this seminar Mr. Mercier illustrates the techniques the news media use to generate polarized news narratives, how this destructive practice harms us, and what we can do at both the individual and organizational level to address the problem.   

We offer custom versions of the seminar for  general, corporate, and school audiences.  
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Working  Around The News Media
​To Find The Truth

The mainstream news media has replaced journalistic principles with propaganda techniques.   Rather than basing their news narratives upon facts, they make the facts fit their preferred news narrative.  As a result, we can't blindly trust any news source --- we must work to ensure we are getting the actual facts on any given news story.

This seminar takes an in-depth walk through numerous examples techniques the mainstream news media use  to manipulate their audience's views on critical issues, using timely examples.  It then explains how to get around these manipulations to determine the true facts on important news stories.

Topics covered include the role fabrication, censorship, and smearing play in the news, the growth in independent and citizen journalists and the role they are playing, and how to change our news consumption habits to ensure we get to the truth.

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Learn More...

 To learn more about our seminars contact Michael Mercier at  Michael.Mercier@ScreenEducation.org, or at  (513) 535-7377.

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Michael Mercier