Monday, October 5, 2015

Oregon community college shooting: Are journalists the bad guys?

     Yet another school shooting has taken place, this time at a small community college in oregon on october first 2015. While many people were greiving, the journalists that were covering this story were recieving hateful words on twitter for asking some of the eye witnesses from the incident if they could have an interview from them so they can report the story. The author of this article I think is trying to show that the journalists are not the bad guys in these situations, that they are just trying to do their job. He supports those statements from interviews that he had with other people that clearly state just that.
      A very strong strength that I noticed this article presents is that it summarizes close to/everything that you need to know about the journalists that were being placed in these bad situations. The author concludes that the journalists should not be labeled as the bad guys in these situations because they are just doing what they need to do in order to keep their jobs.
     Overall i think the author supported most of his main points that he stated throughout the story. The evidence in my opinion is very convincing because they made me believe that the journalists can not really help prevent these interviews if they want to keep their job. This was telling me that when a tradgedy like this happens many people do not know what to think and then they see the journalists attacking the people that were affected by this tradgedie and they want to blame the journalists.
     I do not understand why the people would attack the journalists who are just doing their jobs instead of helping out the grieving poeple of that community. I do not think that the greiving kids from this incident should target the journalists because this is probably a lot of stress on the journalists as well. I have gathered some of this information from paul fahri's article.

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