Ferguson Protest around the world

Protestors around the world are showing their reactions to the grand jury's decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson for the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson. Protestors in London took to the street to voice their disapprovals and to also deal with the same issue of fellow black citizens plight with law enforcement. click here to see London's protest Then there is this article about an Portland teen who has struggled with fear of police brutality. He feared that he might end up as Michael Brown. But with tears streaming down his face while being hugged by an officer, you can see the genuine look of relief and comfort. click here: https://news.yahoo.com/portlands-ferguson-protest-boy-hugs-officer-174417767.html

Media influence on childhood socialization

Social media has certainly played a great role in engaging young adults within the political arena.  Today young people are using this medium as a way to address issues they are concerned about and joining discussions to give their view points.  The first article showed how children involvement from an early age goes with them and they stay involved in political elections, campaign and issues.  This also showed that young adults are socializing with peers within their same line of thought, just the same as older voters have done in the past.  Social Media has influenced many people, but young adults are not aware of biased or false news.  It does show, though, that young people are using social media for both political and civic activities.




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alecia-decoudreaux/youth-politics-online-media-_b_1628348.html

Obama: "If Michelle Nunn Wins, That Means Democrats Keep Control Of The Senate"

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Right now we’ve got a House Republican leadership that just says no to everything, says no to minimum wage, says no to fair pay, and they came in in 2010 during these Midterm elections where people weren’t paying attention, the Tea Party got energized, we did not vote, and we’ve for the last four years had a Congress that hasn’t worked.

And these last two years I want a Congress that does work, and the only way I can do that, even though I’m not on the ballot, is to make sure that our people turn out to vote, that young people and black folks and latinos and progressives and people who share a vision of making sure that this economy works for everybody and not just a few people, that those folks turn out and when we do, we win, and no place is a better example than in Georgia.

Michelle Nunn will win the Senate if there is high turnout among Democrats. And if there is low turnout or just ordinary turnout, then she won’t win. And if Michelle Nunn wins, that means that Democrats keep control of the Senate, and that means that we can keep on doing some good work.

So it is critically important to make sure that folks vote, and if people are aware, you’ve got early vote in Georgia, I voted today in Illinois, we’ve got early vote. There weren’t any lines, I walked in, got it done in ten minutes, and the same is true in Georgia, and if you don’t know how to vote early, don’t know where your polling place is you can go to: Iwillvote.com and that will direct you to where you need to go. But I need everybody who is listening today to go ahead and not just you, but you’re friends, your family, your neighbors, coworkers, take them to the polls, make sure they vote. 

Above is an excerpt from the interview with the president that was broadcast on our local station V103.  He was asked about how Perdue keep on putting him with Nunn showing her in a negative light.  He spoke about the reason why he needed her for his last 2 years in office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHvSdwbwtE4#t=282

Media Ebola Blame Game

The media has certainly played their part in public fear of this disease.  One journalist on the panel noted that journalist have a job to present the facts to the public so they can be informed of issues.  They presented how this has been covered by news media on a twenty-four basis.  The republicans are blamed for the budget cuts they fought for that we now need to fight this crisis.  Shepard Smith noted that panic is not based on facts on reason but are words that people on television used.  Many have even called for the CDC director resignation.  The belt way blame game they call it, appointing of a Ebola czar.  This is a public policy questions and the journalists have to present the investigative news to allow for the public opinion.  Its interesting that people who are not medical professions have a whole lot to say on how this should be handled.  One person noted that we should criticize the policy in place to prevent the spread of ebola.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/3847594784001/medias-ebola-blame-game/#sp=show-clips

I found this article, its old, but it relates to objectivity.  Frontline interviewed some top news media editors, columnists, bloggers and advisers to previous presidents.  Its amazing to me that most are eager to say that objectivity does exists.  One editor even noted that objectivity is not a good term because we are humans.  He even went on to object that news media, in part the Washington Post, is biased?  In fact, most people just want to be told what to do.  I wold argue that even though journalists seek to be objective, just like us, they have an opinion.  Just like we hope that judges, teachers, officers and other officials should be objective in any matter at hand does not happen, as everyone brings beliefs, culture and other influences to any problem.  Read the article to see what all the editors, columnist and bloggers had to say about this here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/tags/objective.html

Media bias explored

There are no "objectivity" in journalism can be seen in almost all major news media.  In this article he wrote about Luke Russert's position on drug war.  In Ryan's account Luke Russert's criticism by blaming American drug users for gang violence in Latin America.  Ryan in this piece noted that bias is policed through political agents.  So objectivity will not go away, I think it will continue with each policy, politicians and issues that warranted the public's interest.

http://theweek.com/article/index/264840/why-objective-journalism-is-a-crock

Media Bias study

Media bias is not only what is reported but the words used in reference to things, people and events.  In this article some ideological "slants used by liberals and conservatives are examined.  In the study the writer implied that the media is not biased, but are compared to ice cream.  News papers tend to tailor the news according to their audience - Republicans (conservative stores) - Liberal lean left in coverage.  In the study conducted on media outlet, it noted, bias is more noticeable.  Read more from the below link.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-samuelson-media-bias-explained-in-two-studies/2014/04/23/9dccdcf6-cafd-11e3-93eb-6c0037dde2ad_story.html