Over years the issue of whether journalists have been treating there sources or clients ethically right have been the question on many peoples’ lips. There have been numerous instances where journalists have been seen as to take advantage of the situation at hand so as to either sell the story or gain popularity at the expense of the client. Therefore, what happens when the client is taken advantage and what are the repercussions that are involved? In this light, there is the story of El Chapo the most successful drug lord and surpassed even Escobar. Many have been dying to get the story about El Chapo since he is now considered to be one of the most wanted people in the world. What makes him interesting is the fact that he has been able to escape from prison twice. He was interviewed by Sean Penn and what remains is whether Sean Penn was able to teat his subject ethically right.
In order to get have an understanding of whether Penn treated El Chapo ethically right then it would be imperative to know what ethics are. Therefore, when we refer to ethics it is the set of rules or standards that an organisation or a professional body have put in place that guides them. Therefore, ethics is about acting within the set policies and within the legal framework. However, it is evident that Penn treated El Chapo ethically right (Penn). It is important to look at the different ways in which can be support that he treated his client ethically right. To begin with, within did he fulfil
Joaquin Guzman best known as “El Chapo” is the world's greatest drug lord. He has been captured three times and has been able to escape twice, once in a laundry basket and the second time he managed to escaped in an underground tunnel built in his shower cell. He was recently recaptured after being fugitive for about six months. Joaquin entered the drug business as a teenager and later became in charge of the Sinaloa cartel. “He shops and ships by some estimates more than half of all the cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana that come into the United States”(Penn). Many argue that El Chapo is a really bad person that only does a lot of harm to the citizens in Mexico, but what most don't know is that he actually helps some of them.
• Born on April 4, 1957, to a poor family in the rural town of La Tuna Badiraguato, his abusive father kicked him out of the house as a child. He started swelling oranges to feed himself. He's poorly educated, his formal education ended in third grade, and as an adult, he has reportedly struggled to read and write, prevailing upon a ghostwriter, at one
Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera (El Chapo) was born on December 25, 1954 in the community of Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico. His parents were Emilio Guzman Bustilos and Maria Consuelo Loera Perez. He grew up on his father’s cattle ranch with his two younger sisters, Amida and Bernarda, and four younger brothers, Miguel Angel, Aureliano, Arturo and Emilio. It is also known that his father was an opium farmer. Throughout Guzman’s childhood he was often beaten by his father for standing up to him. Usually protecting his younger siblings therefore he ended up taking his father’s wrath. Guzman dropped out of the third grade to work for his father, this was due to the fact that the nearest school was 60 miles away and the family could not afford to commute. With little education and few opportunities for employment in his hometown, he became to help cultivate opium for his father. His brothers also joined the family business when they came of age. They would harvest the plant by the kilos and his father would sell it to other suppliers. Guzman became tired of his father’s mismanagement, so he started growing and cultivating his own marijuana plantation with a few distant cousins. He then became financially able to support his family, while his father could not. This ended up leading to his father kicking him out due to jealousy. He then went to live with his grandfather, this is where he earned his nickname El Chapo, which means shorty. This due to the fact that he was 5’6” and
Juárez was born in the village of San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca on March 21, 1807, located in the mountain range now known as the "Sierra Juárez". His parents, Marcelino Juárez and Brígida García, were peasants who both died when he was three years old. Shortly after, his grandparents died as well, in which his uncle then raised him.[2][3] He described his parents as "indios de la raza primitiva del país," that is, "Indians of the original race of the country."[3] He worked in the corn fields and as a shepherd until the age of 12, when he walked to the city of Oaxaca to attend school.[1] At the time, he was illiterate and could not speak Spanish, only Zapotec.
In the Journalists’ Code of Ethics is implemented to the media to keep the reporting of all journalists fair and non-judgemental. The professional standards
revolution? The poor, the workers.” By striking pity and making the reader reflect, Chavez grabs
Dr. Kings life he fought endlessly for what he believes in. He challenged his followers to do the same when they are faced with an injustice too. During Cesar Chavez’s article he follows the same mindset and believes as MLK and shares the differences between protesting styles. In an excerpt from “He Showed Us The Way”, Cesar Chavez fights for the push of nonviolence in the listeners mind.
Cesar Chavez was more towards farmworkers while Martin King Jr. was more towards the Civil Rights movement. Chavez was the person that organized farmworkers and fought to obtain better working conditions in the fields of California. His accomplishments changed the lives of millions of people. Fifty years later, and his influence is still felt today.
Cesar Chavez once said, “There’s no turning back…We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart (cesarchavezholiday.org)”. He means that the organization is so close to winning that if they turned back now, they would loose everything they had already accomplished. Cesar Chavez is a true hero for many farmworkers and their families.
In journalism, an ethical dilemma is a complex issue or situation that often involves an emotional and psychological conflict between moral obligations and duties, in which to obey one would transgress the other. Within the media there are many stories that can be deemed an ethical dilemma; some more so than others. One of the most recent and prominent ethical dilemmas was the worldwide coverage surrounding the shooting of two American WBDJ journalists, Alison Parker and Adam Ward. Despite the fact that the shooter filmed the ordeal clearly showing the two slain journalists being shot, news outlets had picked it up and ran with the story, which ultimately went viral in minutes. This essay will analyse and thoroughly examine the reporting
Who is Vicente Guerrero? Vicente Guerrero was one of the most important heroes of the Mexican independence in 1810 and one of the first presidents of the Mexican republic, he was born in the year of 1782 in August 9 in Tixtla, Guerrero and died on February 14, 1831 in Cuilapan, Oaxaca. Vicente Guerrero is recognized throughout the Mexican Republic for his great feats and victories in the independence of Mexico, but his greatest achievement was his famous Abrazo (hug) of Acatempan in 1821, which ended with independence and created a new era for Mexico. Vicente Guerrero was in his time a simple soldier recruited by José Maria Morelos and Pavon and Isidro Montes de Oca in 1810. But, due to the various events that occurred in the war, Guerrero became the last leader of the independence and he would consummate it with alongside Iturbide to create a
The arrest of Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was a victorious circumstance for the Mexican government, who have been closing down on his presence for the recent past years. Mexican authorities began taking down high ranked members of the Sinaloa Cartel including two of Guzman’s main associates. On February 22, 2014, the world’s most wanted man had also been captured. Although the biggest drug lord has been captured, the crime and violence left behind cannot be forgotten.
The job of a journalist has always been highly scrutinized. For years, the question of what and how a journalist should deliver information has been analyzed. However, despite the many theories, it has always been a clear consensus that journalists have an obligation to truth above all. However, there are many cases where a journalist may not know how far to go in order to deliver that truth. Of course, a journalist must always operate within legal limits, however, again some cases have blurred lines. A case that demonstrates these blurred lines between the legal and illegal, as well as the need to deliver truth, is a case between the Rolling Stone and their use of illegal music links.
Drug cartels have grown and expanded throughout the interior and exterior of states for many years. The way drugs started to be introduced to Mexico, Colombia, and other places around the world was believed to be a myth. It was a tale that was known by many through storytelling, which over the years turned into an actual realistic issue. One of the most known cartels that existed for a long time was The Medellin Cartel. It became a subculture of its own, creating a world full of violence, women, money, firearms, death but most importantly power and fear. Located in Colombia this brutal subculture will show how they become one of the wealthiest subculture in the world surpassing even its own country’s riches.
The King of Cocaine, Pablo Escobar, was a Colombian drug lord who created the Medellin Cartel and was once one of Forbes’ Magazines wealthiest people (Levinthal, 2012). Pablo Escobar was born in 1949 in Colombia to a father was a peasant farmer and mother who was a school teacher (Thompson, 1996). His aspirations for a large life began when he was young and he dreamed of becoming the president of Columbia. However things changed when he realized that being legitimately wealthy would require him to be a criminal. Prior to being involved in drugs and smuggling, Pablo was a petty street thief and would steal cars (Jenish, & Wirpsa, 1993). As his criminal activity grew he would gain a name for himself on the streets that would ultimately prepare