Tuesday, August 29, 2017

News Ethics

1. PETA started a campaign called Holocaust on a plate and its meant to compare the mass genocide of 6 million jews to the slaughter of animals. The campaign shows a camp where animals are being slaughtered in a similar fashion to people in concentration camps during world war 2. PETA was sued by the Central Court of Jews and the campaign was later banned by the supreme court.
I think PETA was wrong for doing this because their comparing the slaughter of 6 million people to animals and people who lived through the holocaust were rightly disgusted by this. The mass genocide of families and people should not be compared to the way we get our food and our way of survival.
2. The pop-rock band the tings tings upcolming album was leaked which caused the band to loose thousands of dollars. Situtaions like this are happening all over the music industry and its causing a lot of lost revune which the band members need to survive. Even the these pirate attacks have been ignored by the news, instead of talking against the acts they are just commenting on how it happened.
I think this is bad because it hurting the music economy by allowing people to easily get the free music instead of paying for it. This causes band who work hard to produce music loose revune which they need to survive.
3.The reporters of the wateragate scandal kept the source a secret and called him deepthroat. In 2005 his name revealed to be Mark Felt, a FBI agent. News sources should be kept secret if it might damage their career or put them in harms way.

Friday, August 25, 2017

Current events practice

1. The judge that ruled out the Texas voter ID law was Navela Gonzalez
2.The USS Lake
3. The carbon monoxide from their vehicles.
4.50 million in the US and more worldwide.
5 Bean to bar because it would be fun too make some chocolate.

1. Charlottesvile construction workers covered confederate war hero statues to mourn white woman killed in protests. Wensday a man with a knife apporached the statue and started to cut the tarp. when the local police asked him to stop he obliged and said it was unlwaful to cover the statues. Later that year a protest of white spuremsits occured and counter protesters clashed with them. A man drove his car into a crowd killing 32-year old heather Heyer.
2.No i do not think it should have been shrouded. I think this because those confederate war heroes are part of south carolinas and the united states history and covering them is destroying historical monuments.
3.I think it is a bad descesion because those statues are historical monuments. those statues show our history and provide a respect for all the people that died during the civil war. Even though those statues mourn people who fought on the the wrong side doesnt mean the people were bad. Those statues represent an important time in southern culture and too remove them is removing history.
4.To be honest I dont really care about the statues and I think others should do the the same. The statues are historicalaral monuments and shouldnt be treated politically.
5. No.