In October of 2014, nurse Kaci Hickox returned from a five week mission trip in West Africa. She had been working with Doctors Without Borders, an aid organization, and had been caring for Ebola patients. When Ms. Hickox arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, her temperature was slightly high. Authorities then decided to place her in isolation in a tent. After she was in isolation for a couple of days she was sent to a local hospital and then back to her home state of Maine. Once in Maine she was placed under a twenty-one day quarantine order which prohibited her from being in places with lots of people. The actions of the New Jersey government have been criticized by Kaci Hickox as well as people around the nation. Her story has been wildly publicized and reported on by a variety of news organizations including CNN and personal blogs. ABC News says that the quarantine and treatment of Kaci Hickox was unnecessary and violated her basic human rights. Canada …show more content…
The article goes in depth on the case as whole. The tone of the article is typical of a major news organization. It is not biased but instead examines all sides of the story. However there is a little leniency in that the article does seem to be on the side of Kaci Hickox and not the federal government. The focus of the article is more of generalization. Instead of focusing on one aspect of the story it focuses on many aspects. The goal is to inform the public on the case of Kaci Hickox. The audience of the article is the general public. A lot of people including businessmen and stay at home moms go on the ABC News website. That is perhaps why the article is more general. The ABC News article is nor positive nor negative but it does favor Kaci Hickox’s
Ebola from everyone’s point of view is seen as inferno. Dr. Steven Hatch’s memorable journey began with him volunteering to leave for Liberia in 2013 to work at a hospital in Monrovia to fight Ebola in one of its most affected areas. There were only a few patients with Ebola when he arrived. The number of patients rapidly increased over his time in Liberia. After six months Ebola was declared a world health emergency and not only were ordinary people outside of the hospital getting the virus but the medical personnel that were tending to the patients had caught it and some of them had even died.
There is no doubt in my mind that Casey Anthony fascinated people much more than she would have if she had not been an attractive, young woman. While everyone had an opinion on the case, that they felt obliged to talk about, and give the same recycled, regurgitated opinions on, at the end of the day you can't really blame them. The media is really just an extension of the masses. What gets reported is based upon what interests people, and this case sure did interest people. I think this level of exposure oftentimes benefits the defendants because evidence becomes over saturated to a point where it blinds the jury from seeing the basic points of the case, and the foundation for a guilty verdict. Casey Anthony's trial is often compare to the O.J. Simpson trial for reasons similar to this. The trials are among the most high profile cases to take place during the new media era, and the not guilty verdict created public outrage and calls for Anthony to be punished. Media figures discussed why prosecutors failed to convict in what seemed to be a can't-miss trial. One reason the guilty verdict fell through could be the lack of Casey Anthony's DNA or fingerprint evidence at the scene of where the body was recovered. This is known as the CSI effect, and involves a jury's desire for forensic evidence, even when a clear picture of the crime is created, and a logical motive is present (English). Many criticized
Through manipulation and lies, media manages to modify objective news into biased news in order to convince the public of what the media wants them to believe. The article, “How the Media Twist the News”, by Sheila Gribben Liaugminas discusses the major influence that news has on readers based on their choice of stories and words. “How the Media Twists the News” has borrowed from multiple other texts such as the books like Public Opinion and Liberty and News, news magazine writers such as Ruderman, and news networks like CBS through Bias, A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News and CNN to make her arguments valid and prove that the news is biased and that it does influence readers significantly because of it.
Copper Sun is a book about a fifteen year old girl named Amari who was stolen from her village by white slave traders, and lived a horrible life as a slave until she finally escaped.
This article does not contain a comical sense to it but has a dark, serious tone that is used to show the disturbing realities of this world that these people live in. The article using multiple rhetorical questions that are meant for the reader to think about and place themselves in the described world. This allows them to place themselves in this world and visualize the harsh reality and fear that this world truly holds. The audience is again those people who are not part of this world but are supposed to be in the position of “on the outside looking in” as this description tries to set them in this world within their imagination. This news article breaks its genre conventions as it is not the usual detailed-packed account of a situation you see on the news that simply describes the news it is talking about. Instead, this uses questions to stimulate the reader to envision their own idea of what is happening, while using some supporting details to sway the reader the way I want them to think. Differently, this does keep the convention of having a serious, and dark tone that most of the new news stories and articles
In the article, “A liberal’s defense of Fox News”, Susan Estrich argues that the claims against Fox News are invalid and quite lacking. Estrich herself works at Fox News as a commentator and she seems to be quite qualified for her job as she is a tenured and titled law and politics professor at University of Southern California. For most of the part, Estrich delivers what seems to be a solid defense of Fox News. Estrich particularly writes the article amidst criticism faced by two journalists of Fox News regarding not following proper journalistic procedure in two separate interview that they had. The article was published in 2005 when the US was dealing with the aftermath of Iraq War and also faced several other issues of deficit. Estrich defends the actions by Fox News and further tries to paint Fox News as a news channel that follows proper journalistic integrity. Despite the article appearing to be convincing, I would not recommend the article to WRI 101 freshmen because the
Casey Anthony was a young mother who was put on trial in May of 2011, for allegedly murdering her two year old daughter, Caylee Anthony. The case had a number of key players, ranging from the offender herself, to judges, attorneys, and investigators. Three segments of the trial stick out in particular: the cross examination, the closing arguments, and the sentencing. All were covered extensively by the media, through a number of sources. There were a number of similarities and differences between the selected media sources, anywhere from detail to length, to what opinion the media outlet had itself on the case. Under a criminal profile, Casey Anthony very much fit the characteristics of a criminal psychopath, and the media did very much so have an impact on the outcome of the trial. Overall, the Casey Anthony trial was intriguing and merits both analysis and discussion.
Greta Christina eloquently puts into words something I know in theory, but can be hard to understand in practice in heterosexual relationships. In Are we having sex now or what? Christina details her record keeping of how many people she had sex with, and what she counted as sex. She talks about the limiting misconception of sex only being coitus, and other acts not “counting.” Christina writes of how when she started having sex with women her outdated system of what was sex and what was not sex was completely destroyed. By limiting sex to “penis in vagina,” Christina was discounting some of her favorite sexual experiances, and including ones she did not particularly enjoy.
Over seventy percent of Americans believe news is purposely biased(SPJ Code of Ethics). This shows that the people in America know their news is biased and are okay with it. Media bias is hurting the way people view races, religious groups, and certain jobs. Before investigating the situation wholly, people tend to believe what the media is saying which could be a stretch of the truth or even a lie. This essay is about Media Bias and all of the important information surrounding this controversial topic: journalism ethics, the “myth” of liberal media bias, and police department controversy.
This is an example of self-interest because of the small number of corporations that want to control the interests of many people through today’s media, so they can benefit from it. If the source is correct, why are corporations controlling the media, when the media’s job is to inform society of important events that are happening in the world to this day? If everyone has a right to watch the news and have the knowledge of what is going on around them, and the small corporations choose to only show things that they want to show, that is unjustly. There is no equality in it and it is unfair to the people who watch or read the news. We all live in a society where all are supposed to be equal, but if corporations control the media and chooses what to show, there is no equality. Which means some people would have greater knowledge than others about information. The role of individual in society should be more of economic
That act will forever represent a failure in the criminal justice system, and a failure of the media if the way they reported the crime affected the outcome of the trial in a negative way. No one is trying to take away the media’s first amendment right to free speech. However, when the media's right to freedom of expression imposes on other people's rights, there lies a problem. There has to be an understanding that does not put one's rights above another. The media's rights are not above the law and not above other people's rights.
With a devastatingly crucial issue such as women being shunned by the media, it’s not okay to have the ideas of other people in your work. In the article, “Controversial Hillary Cover of Time Illuminates Sexism in the Media” by Marianne Schnall, implies that the media is negatively affecting the chances of women becoming successful with all the sexism it is portraying. Marianne Schnall is a published writer and professional interviewer with many influential credentials that she is not afraid to use. In addition, this article's overall effectiveness was not what I was expecting. The article was overwhelming because of all the people she mentioned and then she tried elaborating what they all said after each interview!
Media is an important tool in today's society, it is how many people get their information and stay up to date with what is going on in the world. Not surprisingly though, the media has become increasingly picky with how it presents its information throughout recent years. This is called media bias; it is when a media source guides its readers to agree with the article they are reading or the news they are watching. Media bias is used to keep readers engaged with the story (for mostly money-related purposes), but that does not change the fact that media bias is dangerous to the people and the world they live in. Throughout history, instead of using factual representation of people going through the criminal justice system and its reform, mass
Who is the silver-haired woman? In the book, Inferno by Dan Brown, this character starts off without the assurance that she is even real. Robert Langdon, the protagonist, sees her in dreams after his amnesia and only refers to her as the silver-haired woman. When they meet she is given a name and a reason to why she was in Langdon’s dreams. She is the character with the most influence on Langdon from the beginning and is on Langdon’s side. This silver-haired woman changes from being in a dream to being real to making an ultimate decision.
During these difficult economic times sensationalism has become more prevalent in the media. Stories involving sex scandals and child murders have taken over our T.V and internet screens as well as the front pages of our newspapers. The media bias of sensationalism has been used as a sort of escapism for readers. Although it may seem that sensationalism has just started making waves, it has been around for decades. Sensationalism has been influencing viewers and contributing to media bias since the days of the penny press. Sensationalisms long history has been turbulent, self-serving, and influential to today’s reporting practices. With the influence over readers’ sensationalism’s media bias have and will continue to affect media reporting for years to come.