4/14/2020 0 Comments Privacy and Unity in the Media Recently, I read two articles pertaining to the news. Of course, there will always be pieces of the article that can be agreed upon while the other half may include disagreements. The first article that I read was titled, “Big Tech Could Break Democracy.Knowledge is our best defense.” To sum up the article, it was written about privacy within the government and the internet.While I was reading this article I tried to understand the idea of the whole article. What stood out to me the most were the questions that the author himself thought about. If this policy is considered to keep the privacy rights of government and political issues away from internet sources what will the world say. We live in a world now where privacy isn’t really a thing anymore. You can record someone and post them on your Facebook page without getting into serious trouble now.
Some of the concerns that were brought toward were the rights that an individual held to privacy versus a company whose data is used against them due to their interests. The most famous freedom of speech that a lot of people hold near and dear to their heart versus an online community’s opinion about their standards. By cutting the world off from certain issues, conversations and information could really cause an uproar because this is the only world we have and it is all we know. If something is going on, shouldn’t we know about it. The other article was titled, “Six Reasons Young Adults Think The News Media Is Dividing Our Country.” In the beginning of the article it spoke about the concerns that many young adults have in the world pertaining to the news media. They feel as though it plays a major role in democracy and the unity that is in our country. As I read through the article, one particular section stopped me in agreement. Each reason was labeled by a number and followed with statistical information pertaining to the title . The number I stopped on was number 4 which was titled, “The majority of African American and Hispanic participants do not feel like media sources accurately or fairly portray their groups, when they do get coverage.” When I look at the media today and even those in the past it’s very clear to see that African Americans aren’t always portrayed well on the news media. When news reporters go to neighborhoods where African Americans are mostly dominated, it seems as though they find the “worst” subjects to help them cover their story. Most of the time, they will interview people who represent the neighborhood great with nice detailed words but where is the fun in that. They would rather find someone who is comical and not neatly put together in appearance or words because it’s more entertaining. Although some of the news content of these individuals come off as funny, it is also painful to watch because the world is laughing at African Americans as a whole. It’s like that old saying, one bad apple ruins the whole bunch.
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