Monday, October 3, 2011

response to protest

Response to

Videos show police using pepper spray at the protest on the financial system.

As I was reading the story. I realize the importance that the protesters are concern about. I also try to understand why this story is not in the front page of the papers or why this news is not extended to the broadcasting system to see the importance of this matter. Up to today almost 5 after the first incident took place am still trying to understand why is this a matter that all major news papers and informatics systems are not really involved with this. This really lead me to a quick conclusion that journalism is not doing its jobs by informing the public the way is supposed to. At the same time I don’t really understand why the news surrounded to this matter are being so bias. They are not giving enough information about the situation. Why the reporters are just staying in the margin of the whole situation and why the police officers are abusing with the power that is given to them. Besides the small column that was given to them in a newspaper like the New York Times. The only way to really acquired knowledge of what is going on with this situation is thru the Internet especially thru videos that are being posed by the people. I don really think that police officers are acting in the most correct way to control a situation like this and the used of pepper spray was excessive used of force because this should only be used in the result of violence or extreme necessary which according to the video that I saw it wasn’t either.

One of the things that is really surprising is that to my understanding of journalism this matter is having a bad journalism involved because this is a situation that some how affect us all Americans and even though we are not directly involved in the protest the economy and the crisis surrounding it is something that we all have to be informed about. People can call this matter how ever they want but to my thinking this is an unethical used of information given to us by the reporters and journalist and is a well showing cruel reality the one being shown by the people and the community that is informing us thru videos.

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