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SPRINGFIELD, Mo.-- We've been sharing some courageous conversations with you this past week on race relations here in Springfield in the aftermath of Ferguson.

Many have been on social media outlets like Facebook, twitter and Instagram but with weighty topics like Ferguson and race relations, is social media the best way to carry on a courageous conversation?

We wanted you to share some Springfield voices that have concerns about social media and whether it hurts or helps.

Ferguson was handled in such a way with the media that it went everywhere...with the internet, Facebook, said Springfield NAACP President Cheryl Clay.

I think what happens with social media in my estimation has not contributed to the civility necessary for the kinds of in-depth discussion that have to happen in this hundreds of years long discussion we've had in America. You don't deal with it in Tweets, you don't deal with it in slogans. You deal with it eyeball to eyeball and social media allows anonymity, social media allows cynicism, snarkiness, to rule the day, it becomes an art form and subsequently. It raises consciousness but it doesn't contribute to what is really necessary, said Byron Klaus of the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary.

Things spin out of control very quickly with inaccurate, incomplete information or just flat out bogus information people trying to fan the flames of something like that, said Police Chief Paul Williams.

You don't have all the facts, nobody has all the facts yet, let's not say anything until we get all the facts and then if we identify issues that are problematic, let's be willing to address every one of those issues, said Wes Pratt of the Springfield NAACP Criminal Justice Committee.

Were not getting at the issues as much as we should we're kinda face with how do you get a hold of this greased pig and really wrestle with it when you really want to but if there's no big issue you don't want to start a fight in order to have an issue, said Dorsey Levell of the Council of Churches.

It's easier to cast, throw stones as opposed to engage in those conversations and do your research and it doesn't take a whole lot because it's right there at your finger tips, said Pratt

Chief Paul Williams said, But please do not keep parroting that 20 years ago thing, that 50 year ago thing because it doesn't do anybody any good. That's not having open, honest dialogue that's regurgitating, dredging up stuff we can't have an effect on its good form a historical perspective to know where we came from but let's work on today and the future and how we want to be and not keep talking about how it was in the past.

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Jagmohan Dalmiya: Back at Indian cricket's helm

Kolkata: Newly elected Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya's return to his home turf Eden Gardens, that houses the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) headquarters, was marred by a media frenzy on Wednesday. (Anurag Thakur Wants to Clean up BCCI's Image)

Dalmiya, who was present at the Eden Gardens to award the winners of the school cricket tournament 'Mayor's Cup', left the venue in a huff without obliging the over 50 representatives of electronic and print media who were in a mad scramble for the veteran sports administrator's bytes. (PCB Chief to Meet Jagmohan Dalmiya)

Even as the reporters almost surrounded him seeking to know about his future endeavours and issues concerning Indian cricket, the 74-year-old former International Cricket Council chief refrained from saying anything.

He was quickly escorted to the car by his aides, with the media persons hot on his heels. But it was of no avail, as he was driven away from the frenzy.

On Monday, after a gap of over 10 years, Dalmiya made an uncontested comeback as full time president of the BCCI, at the board's 85th annual general meeting in Chennai.

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Media Frenzy at Eden Gardens Mars Jagmohan Dalmiya's Visit

Dhoni has admitted he speaks with the media only because his job requires him to

Melbourne: Defending champions India may be one of the most high-profile teams at the World Cup, but their reluctance to interact with the media has frustrated the large contingent of travelling reporters. (World Cup Coverage)

The players have not spoken publicly since skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni addressed the mandatory post-match conference after the victory over arch-rivals Pakistan in Adelaide last Sunday. (Fletcher is Boss, Team India Denies Rumours of Rifts)

When the squad's media manager puts out a release detailing practice times and venues, he does not fail to emphasise there will be 'no media activity' after training. (South Africa Legend Plots Team India's Downfall)

The earliest a member of the team will speak now is at the next mandatory pre-match media conference on Saturday ahead of the key Pool B match against South Africa at the Melbourne Cricket Ground the next day.

A media release said Dhoni will skip the conference, leaving his vice-captain Virat Kohli to take questions. (Dangerous India Can be Title Contenders: Ponting)

While other teams organise regular media interactions during the six-week tournament, the Indian squad is apparently following a diktat from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to speak publicly only when it is mandated by rules.

"I think it all boils down to the mistrust of the media," said veteran Indian journalist R. Kaushik of the WisdenIndia website. "There has to be a reason for it, but I don't know what.

"Maybe they feel players are misquoted for the sake of creating a controversy. But it is a challenge reporting on the Indian team."

Dhoni, one of the most popular cricketers in India, rarely gives one-to-one interviews and has even gone on record to say he speaks to the media only because his job requires him to.

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ICC Cricket World Cup: India's Sounds of Silence Irks Media

Rocker John Mayer struggles to control his use of social media because he considers himself a "recovering ego addict".

The 'Your Body Is a Wonderland' singer admits he let his behaviour get out of control early on in his career because he used to feed off all of the praise and adoration he received from fans online, but it wasn't until his candid 2010 interview with Playboy magazine, in which he dished on all of his celebrity ex-girlfriends and famously described Jessica Simpson as "sexual napalm", that he realised he needed to take a step back from the limelight.

He quit Twitter and moved from Los Angeles to Montana, where he has since refocused his attention on his music, and Mayer is adamant he is nothing like the man he once was.

Discussing the moment he realised he had hit rock bottom, he tells US newsman Ronan Farrow, "I went, 'All right, dude, you did a couple interviews where you were out of touch and you were being a ham, and you were basically breakdancing into a nitroglycerin plant, right?'"

Mayer, who is reportedly dating Katy Perry, claims he was never the playboy he was portrayed to be in the press, but he played up his wild behaviour to fit the part - because he thought that's what fans wanted to see.

Asked if he considers himself a womaniser, he replies, "No. Absolutely not. But when you're crafty and you're clever and you go, 'Well, I'm just going to be as strange as they think I am,' then you lose [yourself]. Number one: You're not playing music anymore. Number two: You're not feeling anything honestly. And number three: You're not saying anything honestly."

He returned to Twitter last year, but Mayer admits he has to remind himself every day not to get too drawn in to social media.

He says, "I'm a recovered ego addict and the only way that I can be sure that I don't relapse is to admit that I constantly have this ego addiction every day. So I do the Grammys and then I go home, because if I stay I get high again [on the approval].

"You've already looked through Twitter, everyone says it's great, and then you get low again because you can't stop looking, so I'm a recovered ego addict."

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