The reaction from the general public to the forced removal of passenger David Dao from United Flight 3411 is thus far the best example I have come across of the dangerous, growing influence that social media has on how we perceive news and global events. David Dao, a 69-year old Asian-American doctor from Kentucky, was violently removed from his seat on an overbooked United flight by Chicago Department of Aviation police after refusing to give up his seat to United staff. Following the release of a recording of the incident, thousands of people over various social media platforms reacted in outrage to United, claiming that the handling of the situation by the airline and police was inexcusable. Additionally, many believe that Dao was justified in his relentless refusal to leave the aircraft after being requested to by both United and Chicago police. The injuries sustained by Dao as a result of his removal from the flight by …show more content…
In the case of United Airlines, the airline has every right to remove a customer from a flight in the event of an overbooking or excessive disruption from the customer. Thousands of people are removed without conflict from flights as a result of overbooking every year. Despite this, the public outcry directed towards United indicates that many seem to believe that Dao was justified in standing his ground and refusing to leave the aircraft. Furthermore, many cite his occupation as a doctor and his desire to see his patients as a justification of his actions. While this may sound reasonable, it ignores the fact that Dao could have been delayed by dozens of other potential incidents that don’t involve overbooking. If Dao’s situation was as time-sensitive as he was making it out to be, he should have been aware of the risk of his flight being delayed, and resultantly have scheduled an earlier flight or purchased a more expensive ticket to guarantee his
Hijacked planes were purposely flown into the twin towers in New York and killed about 3,000 innocent people. This was one of the most disastrous incident to ever occur during the era. After the release of who caused the attack, lots of people from the Islamic culture were the center of attention right after the event. They were falsely accused of being called terrorists without little to any evidence. It was mainly because of their appearance and beliefs. It was more like racism and stereotypes towards them. Society has painted them to be these terrorists because they were feared and immediately got the wrong idea when they approach them. The day the terrorist attack happened, it sparked a new beginning for their culture. They not only felt scared when they were around them, but they felt like they were going to become a part of a violent attack that they’re going to cause without them acknowledging it. It can be disrespectful and rude to assume they’re terrorist but they didn’t care. It was “[society] [who] feared what [they] don't understand. In a frenzied state of irrational behavior [they] will point fingers and name names and accuse the innocent because [they] are afraid” (Garcia). Society was terrified for their lives. They made them feel unwelcomed and unwanted. The fear exponentially rose and became a problem when they wanted to fly to a destination. Lots of “Americans became paranoid
During the onslaught of negotiations and rescue efforts by the Berkeley Police Department, a media frenzy began to ensue as media stations competed to carry the broadcast live. The days following the incident resulted in expressed concern and anger from the public about the perceived irresponsibility of the media coverage by a particular local television station and
The case is one that is all too familiar thanks to the growing trend within social media platforms. Allegations of police using excessive force, raising concerns about law enforcement’s credibility.
Twitter and tear gas is authored by none other Tufekci Zeynep. A Turkish decent from the early 1950’s, Zeynep depicts how the media (twitter especially) has impacted our world. Zeynep is a Turkish writer, a sociologist, and also a programmer. She is known for her research in how technology and society intersects. Most of her work focuses on social interaction, social movement, and privacy and surveillance. She is a professor at the school of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and also the Department of Sociology. Her book Twitter and tear gas is a must read.
These two literary works, 40 Hours in Hell by Katherine Finkelstein and Third World by Dexter Filkins, both present diverse perspectives on what occurred during the World Trade Center attack. Although both texts approach the coverage of this attack differently, as reporters, they both base their news using normative theory. Normative theory is the consideration of what is morally correct or incorrect. In relation to normative theory is the Social Responsibility Theory. This theory deals with how an individual must complete their civic duty, since they are apart of the press, as well as their actions must benefit society. Nonetheless, of these two texts, 40 Hours in Hell best fulfills the requisites of the Social Responsibility Theory.
Sherman Alexie’s Flight Patterns, which discusses racial stereotypes, relates to the effects of 9/11 on American citizens, who tend to inappropriately judge Muslim and other cultures in the world today. Although 9/11 was a horrible day, it still should not be used to categorize and stereotype people. Stereotypes do nothing but harm to the people who receive it and to the people who dish it out.
It’s the day before Valentine’s Day, you are eagerly waiting to get home to your significant other so you can celebrate the day of love, and you load your flight and hit the runway to take off. However, you sit on the runway for six hours waiting only to find out that you cannot leave. This was the tragic realization for many passengers who choose to fly with JetBlue on February 13, 2008 (Hanna). On that day, only 17 of the 156 flights scheduled left the airport (Hanna). More and more flights were canceled over the course of a week, leading to 1,096 flights in all and more than 130,000 angry customers (Smith). Finally, on February 20th flights resumed as usual but as you can imagine there were a lot of unhappy customers to deal with (Hanna).
This kind of social issue is more evident when episodes with violence are trending topics. For example, during and after the September 11th’s attack in New York, many Arabs, Muslims, and South Asians, were subject to revisions and detentions because authorities had no clue about how those mentioned attacks were perpetrated and who did them. It was not just a matter concerning authorities, society in general condemned hardly to the entire eastern community, even though many of that people stopped, detained, and questioned, did not have any linkage with this terrorist event.
August 6, 1945 the day the world would change forever, the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. I believe that this bomb was absolutely necessary to end the Second World War because if the bomb had not been dropped many more lives would have died. Before the bomb had been dropped 36 million men had already been killed in the Pacific War and the Japanese used the Samurai fighting technique. This mindset is that one will go out to fight and die for their country, dying in war was honor these men did not come home and if captured they killed themselves. Our US soldiers were not made for that and our government was not going to send them into a suicide mission.
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One of the foremost not-so-shocking consequences that have unusually become a trend in today’s society as a result of the events of September 11th is the issue of racial profiling. Racial profiling is the unjust method used by certain police officials to gather suspects for a variety of crimes; it is used to target certain individuals based on race, ethnicity, national origin, or religion (“Racial Profiling”). Citizens and authorities alike have developed an attitude towards people from the Middle East. When a person sees a Middle Eastern male enter a plane before it takes flight, people usually began to feel extreme paranoia. Since we are assuming that the attacks on the World Trade Center in 1993 and 2001 were both done by the same nationality, citizens have established the mindset that all Middle Eastern individuals are inevitably terrorists. It is true that both masterminds for each of the attacks were of Middle Eastern descent. However, the paranoia is not rational; it is only rooted in an irrational fear birthed out of ignorance. The only conclusion th...
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The reason I chose to write about this company McDonnell Douglas is because I felt that what they did was appalling and demonic. They dehumanized the passengers and only seen profit margins. One may say that McDonnell Douglas imps did not know the meaning of the word “solidarity”: Solidarity is a principle of Catholic Social Teaching. This principle means the firm and preserving determination to commit oneself to the common good. This principle incorporates other principles like Human Dignity, Community, Common Good, Stewardship, and Option for the Poor, that is what we are to demonstrate in our actions. This principle does not always come into play with many corporations; Furthermore when things like this come into play, one may say that a company is participating in unethical business practice. This is the reason why an American commercial aircraft industry company named McDonnell Douglas failed to reach their full potential in designing aircrafts. Their lack of ethical appropriate behavior has shown many that the expense of a change of a product is more important than losing lives over something that could have been prevented. There are three ways this situation could have been avoided but yet was not: First, finding an ethical way of putting the consumer long term goals first and increasing profitability (ex. maintaining a good company image). Secondly, look at the short term effect of being unethical, and receiving high profitability and long-term effect of being caught and having to file bankruptcy finally; McDonnell Douglas has an ethical responsibility for the lives of the people who use their product. McDonnell Douglas had a responsibility to the people to provide them a quick trouble free flight to and from their chosen...
Law enforcement officers hold a unique position within society. Granted by laws, police officers are given authority to use force at their discretion to keep the communities they serve peaceful and safe. The severity of force at the disposal of law enforcement officials can range from minor actions such as restraint, all the way to terminal force with the use of an officer’s service weapon. It is this authority and the responsibilities that come with it that make the law enforcement profession highly visible and often scrutinized. This scrutiny and criticism has increased in the last 15 years, in large part due to an increase in police power and authority, as well as to social media (Waxman, 2009). For instance, technological advances in cell phones, citizens have the ability to video record their and others’ interactions with police. It is often the instances of force used by police that end up on the evening news or distributed through social media. One such example is the use of pepper spray and bullying tactics by University of California, Davis police during the Occupy movement in late 2011. These acts were inflicted on non-violent, peaceful protestors and could be viewed not only on television, but through the internet as well (Rodriguez, 2012).
According to the two videos regarding Daniel Sloss per Topic 2, Daniel spoke and informed to the audience about a variety of controversial topics. In the first video, he opens up by making fun of himself about how young he is. After that, he moves on to another topic about him moving out from his mom and dad (he mentions that he purposely calls his dad a “step-dad.”) After some more topics, he then tells a joke about abortion and how his family calls his aunt “Aunty Abortion,” as she had five abortions. Daniel also mentions about how his ex-girlfriend is unlikely to be the “most beautiful girl in the world” since statistically, there are about 3.5 billion girls/women on Earth. The probability of his ex-girlfriend being the one most beautiful girl in the world is 1 out of 3.5 billion, which is practically zero. In the second video, he starts by telling a joke relating to spiders. Daniel then moves on to the controversial topic in regards to the LGBTQ community, particularly about two homosexual penguins. He informs the audience that once a penguin chooses a mate, they mate for life. He also explains about how the penguins could not lay an egg and that the two penguins found and cared for a rock. The zookeeper then gave an extra egg to the two penguins and that even though the baby was being cared by two male penguins, the baby was not different to any