NBC News posted an update recently about two women that were lost at sea for up to five months. (Update: as I am turning this in, I see that the story was updated this morning as well. This is the third time the story has been updated, I believe). This story has been told earlier, but those articles were focused on other details like how the women survived, for example. This article dives right into how the two Hawaiian women never used every source possible to get rescued. Right away the article mentions failure of the woman to use their emergency beacon, declared on board Lt. by Scott Carr, United States Coast Guard spokesman. Once this is brought up, the author moves to talk about other things to discredit the fact that the women were …show more content…
One thing to note, however, is that the direct author or reporter from the AP is not named, it just says “by Associated Press.” Three times in this news story does the reporter mention that these sources are telling their information directly to the Associated Press via telephone. I assume they want to show that they got the information themselves from these sources rather than taking the information away from another article; the news is fresh and they’re the ones giving it to viewers. This TV news article seemed a bit persuasive to me. Though it didn’t say a set argument on what it wanted you to believe or side with, it was focused entirely on what the two women said they seemed questionable. It wasn’t that Appel and Fuiava were getting called out, it was the facts they used that gave me this thought. Multiple things that the two said were put into the article as what seemed untruthful or hyperbolic. It seems as if the reporter doesn’t believe the women to the fullest extent. Quoted from the article, “That was after the women reportedly lost their engines” (Associated Press). Rather than saying “after the women lost their engines” the word “reportedly” makes the event possible, but not one-hundred percent believed. There aren’t a ton of questions that I thought about while reading the article that ended up unanswered. My first thought was how the dogs were doing for five months while stuck on a boat. We know who
Reporting on the case resulted in inaccurate facts and in majority failed to state Ms.Liebeck’s legal stance of pressing charges. Majority of newspapers, as well as news reporters failed
The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom was the end of the Hawaiian monarchy and officially became part of the U.S. territory in the 1900s. The people who had overthrown the kingdom were originally called the Hawaiian League. They were a group of planters and businessmen who wanted to control the Hawaiian Kingdom they eventually changed their names to the Annexation Club then to the Committee of Public of Safety. After they had overthrown the Hawaiian monarchy, they created a provisional government to lead the Hawaiian kingdom. Afterwards, on January 12, 1898, Hawaii was officially annexed to the United States. The overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom negatively impacted the Hawaiian Kingdom because it made Queen Liliuokalani give up her throne, took the independence of Hawaii, and changed the voting
Stories sometimes are true and sometimes they are false but it is up to the public to believe in what is right and what is wrong. In this day and age, where information is available at the touch of a mouse, it’s not surprising that the media is a particularly dominant and powerful
In this particular article, the author isn’t given a name, however they are listed as the History Channels’ staff writer. The writer gives a brief explanation about the beginning of the accusations and the events that took place in the following years. Their purpose for the article is to provide evidential information on an educated
During Stryker’s claim he provides an excellent example of how news wants to get everything out first even if it is not accurate. The example he provides is from Sandy Hook and how in the beginning of a major event “reporters are notoriously bad at getting the facts straight” (Stryker 589). He then relates this to social media and how once something is out even though it might be incorrect people are still going to believe it because it was on social media. The intent however for each post
b) This source shows what truly what is going on and what it looks like. I find that there is no one trying to make another look good or cover up the incident; it is just the plain truth and is so powerful that I can see it in my mind.
“… to gather news it is often necessary to agree either not to identify the source of information published or to publish only part of the facts revealed, or both; that if the reporter is nevertheless forced to reveal these confidences to a grand jury, the source so identified and other confidential sources of other reporters will be measurably deterred from furnishing publishable information, all to the detriment of the free flow of information, protected by the first amendment.” (3)
Throughout history, and still today, Americans have looked to popular media outlets to stay up to date on the current issues our nation is involved in. Many Americans take the news reported at face value instead of digging deeper than the headlines to do a little of their own research. A clear majority of those Americans believe if they read it in the newspaper or see it on social media, it must be true. However, the media is notorious for manipulating the facts in order to advance the American government’s agenda. A manipulating media circuit is nothing new. An example of this is the USS Greer incident. Multiple media reports helped advanced President Roosevelt’s desire to engage in war by publishing inaccurate reports from the September 4, 1942 incident.
In, “One Man’s Rumer I Another Man’s Reality, Gregory Rodriguez, an author of the Los Angeles Times he argues about the power of broadcasting the truth and its effect on the people. As a result, “can false rumors and off-the-wall theories be corrected by broadcasting the truth” (Gregory Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times, September 28, 2009)?
I think people have just become cleverer with their techniques. Some times when an article is giving information in a respectable manner, it can also mean that they are not telling the whole story. What I have learned is that journalists will pick and choose what they want to put in their article, rather than feeding us all of the
The Truth is Not Always What We Want to Hear: Did the Media Go Too Far in
The New York Times includes important sources thato help the reader feel more secure about the information given. The type of propaganda that the journalists Mark Landler and Jonathan Weisman often used thewas Testimonial device. The New York Times’ quotes in the article were by people who are well- known by the populace. A quote stated by someone who is well recognized generally helps the reader believe what is being said versus a quote by a person who is not well recognized. This is why Landler and Weisman decided to include President Obama and Secretary of¬ State John Kerry in for quotes in their article. By using these individuals, it also links the story and helps verify the information that was given to the targeted audience. End The Lie’s article had numerous quotes, but some were by recognizable people and others were anonymous. Having an anonymous source in an article is skeptical because anyone could have said it, and that person may not know much about the Russian proposal or the any other diplomatic path that is trying to be focusedsolutions. Also, on or the journalist could have easily added their own opinion by quoting themselves and hiding behind an anonymous source.
The media has been adversely affected by the explosion of information sources. It has become a tedious and cumbersome endeavor to accurately locate information sources that can stand to even the slightest bit of scrutinizing. For those who attempt to report the truth, they continue to find it
From the case, we know that “The story seemed to break very suddenly. However, common investigative journalism, the target knew about the
The article published in the Rolling Stone the day after the capture of the infamous drug lord, El Chapo, sparked conversation nationwide. Penned by actor and political activist Sean Penn, the article is anchored by a private interview he had with El Chapo in October. The controversy surrounding this article is directed towards the story behind the story, as Angela Kocherga described in an interview with PBS Newshour. After speaking with Jann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone, Penn went forward with his interview without alerting authorities about his contact with one of the world’s most wanted fugitive. The question of whether or not Penn violated media ethics remains unanswered as debates continue across the nation. From the interviews following the publication of the article, it can be deduced that Penn is acting as a citizen journalist interested in improving the state of journalism and that the editors of