some interesting images

so anyway... is this how some people cope with their pain or is this just blatant stupidity? lets discuss shall we?
i apologize, but the gifs wont animate on blogger...

Journalism in general

i just think it is very interesting to note how Journalism has evolved devolved throughout time... As i read the article i realized that no matter what happens Journalists of every kind whether they be acreditted writers or tabloid writers prefer to entertain. Lets be honest with ourselves. We prefer ( and I include myself) to watch our cartoons and reality TV and play video games. No one wants to talk about a disturbing or upsetting topic for as long as it can be avoided and it mademe wonder how much we as a nation choose to ignore because a topic is too heavy for us to handle...

Journalism after September 11

As I read on, I felt a lot like Alicia did, when she said that the newscasters did the best they could to find out what was going on. Had they not been able to broadcast on that day, then a lot of us wouldn't have even known what was going on. During a time, as the one we experienced during 9/11, its amazing to me how much information the newscasters were able to present to us. Just imagine how helpless we would have felt had the media not been able to inform us of the events as fast as they did. And the fact that journalists throw objectivity out the window during a time as such, just emphasizes the reality of it. We expect the media to provide us with the cold hard facts and leave all emotion at the door, however had they done so then they wouldn't have been out on the field reporting and risking their lives to inform us. Instead they would have informed us from a newsroom, taking away from the importance, the seriousness and the reality of the event.
Even more amazing to me is all the information that the government was withholding, and is still withholding today. When I think of the United States, I think of a country where the government does right by its people, and does all in its ability to protect and unite its people. The thought of information being withheld makes me wonder what other truths we don't know about our government and if it should really be governing a country that calls itself the United States.

Jofenic (Jo)

Journalism After 9/11

Our newspapers, news channels, radio stations, anchormen and women are all normally taken for granted. I feel that we, as an audience, generally view journalists as the cut-and-dry authorities of any knowledge of the present state of our cities, countries, and world. However, the foreward and introduction to "Journalism After September 11" does an interesting job of turning the perspective towards the people and the processes behind the stories, all as potentially sensitive, able to make mistakes as we are. According to this article, 9/11 had an incredible impact on journalists, and in addition to being the ones responsible for educating the public on the situation, they also had to take on the heavy task of helping an entire nation heal, mend, and move on. However, the solutions are obviously not simple, and the media, in all its shapes, forms, and functions, has taken on many different methods to educate and help the country, which according to the article, includes strains of censorship, corruption, and even ignorance. The questions of "what should journalism be" and "what is journalism" are constantly being brought up in the discussion of how 9/11 changed the media and the ways that it handles traumatic issues. What I found most interesting in the reading was the comparsion of the American media to the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), and the result was that America was much more likely to coddle its homeland audience, while British journalists were much more comfortable delivering the blunt, unadulterated facts without including bias or partiality.

Needless to say, the events that occured on September 11th changed the history of the world. This article shows that change among the very people who are presenting the change to us, the viewers.

Kathy