The Evolution Of News
This post is split into two parts. Part A is the news item itself. Part B is the process of which this news is abstracted and the benefits of knowing this.
"Environment officials in Beijing have warned Chinese managers that if they fail to meet pollution reduction deadlines, they will be banned from raising stock market capital for three years."
This presents the ethical dilemma illustrated in the book "A Clockwork Orange". An act for the benefit of good is being accomplished through negative consequence. Business pollutes, business cares about making money, threaten the source of income and suddenly business must logically consider pollution in their planning. Is it right that good is accomplished through this negative reinforcement? or doesn't it matter as long as the result is positive?
The second part of this post talks about sources of information. I noticed this news item on the Great News Network. They were referring to a site I have previously visited entitled GreenBiz. The initial and, in this instance, most informative source though is Ethical Corporation.
I can't recommend highly enough the concept of corporate responsibility championed by Ethical Corporation. Businesses, like people, can do what they wish. They shall be held accountable for the choices they make, if these choices have negative consequence amends must be made. That is corporate responsibility. The commodity they ultimately trade on is public credibility.
