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Wednesday, January 14, 2009,
The story, Sharing The Community Grief, tells the story of 3 suicides related to the teenage depression took place. The story was handled in a better--in my opinion--way than the other story, The Fallen Servant. The coverage of this story was more mature and not as hateful as those of the other one.
When it comes to handling the stories of the 3 teenage suicides within 24 hours I think that I may have handled it in a similar manor. I think that some details like Thomas Smith professing his love to a girl was not necessary to be published due to the fact that it could be understood as his suicide being the girls fault. However, I also think that by adding little details to the stories could help explain to the public. Although it could also be an invasion of privacy. I think that it wasn't the best idea to relate the other two suicides to be linked to Thomas'. I think that if a person was mentally stable , there's no way it could make people become suicidal literally over night. I think that the story was handled in a better way, with not too much detail but just enough to get the point across.
6:33 AM
Sunday, January 11, 2009,
The article "The Fallen Servant" tells the story of what happened to Norman E. Creger, a 17-year old veteran of the Jackson (MI) Fire Department, back in 1982. The story shows many examples of ethical dilemma's. Approximately forty-five days later it was released that Creger was "legally" drunk. They said that his alcohol level was at a 0.16, and a driver was considered "under the ifnluence" when he was driving with one of 0.10. The autopsy report was released about a month after his death. However, when these reports were released there was lots of negative feedback from people across the state. People were furious with the fact that some newspapers/magazines would sink to such low heights just to sell their magazines/newspapers. People saw the headlines and stories to be "disrespectful" due to the fact that people were speaking ill of the dead, especially of a fallen veteran. The ethical dilemma that I saw in this article was the fact that people were speaking of ill of the dead. By publishing articles that give someone a bad name after they just tried to save your house/business is just wrong. What if your newspaper stand was on fire; would you not want them to try to put it out. The ethical dilemma I see is hypocrisy.
1:14 PM
Thursday, January 8, 2009,
When reading about how online journalists are treated in other countries, it really got me thinking. It got me thinking about how lucky and privileged we are to live in a country where such things don't happen. It was unbelievable to see the number of people in other countries who were imprisoned for expressing their own opinion by online journalism. In china approximately 35 people were imprisoned. It was also shocking to see that such popular internet/computer companies were involved in the imprisonment. This included such popular companies like Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo! After learning about how bloggers' privacy and freedom are easily compromised and taken away in countries such as China, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran, how does this make you feel about your right to blog? This made me feel very privileged and lucky to live in a country where you can express your opinion. Knowing that there are other people out there who try to do nothing more than express their opinion and openly talk about issues affecting their country, get arrested and outspoken by those of "higher authority". It also makes me seriously think about how much we can sometimes take for granted. For example, blogging and expressing ourselves online. If teenagers and other blog users were to have their rights and privileges of freedom of speech online, it would cause a lot of problems/controversy.
5:09 AM
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