Reasoning

I have had a hard time with the weekly blog assignments. With the research that I did on blogs and in the paper that I wrote at the beginning of the semester, blogs have not seemed like a good idea to me. I completed the prompts because I have no problem writing in response to a question asked of me. When it comes to free writing, I don't particularly want everyone to read it, especially a class full of people that I have never met. I don't like to state my opinions in mixed company and I don't like to say things that will make people angry. I also didn't want to get in trouble with my job or my friends and family. So I don't feel bad that I did not do the free writing weekly, I did not feel like venting in a public forum that I can not control. Just like now, I am venting about a class that I do not care for and I will more than likely get "talked to" about this post by the proffessor. Just so you understand I could have written one of these a week and I really don't think that would have been appropriate.

Ethics of Journalists

I have heard many times that the news the people want to hear is what is reported. Fox News is said to have a very large Republican base so they tend to report news that will interest their viewers. Democracy Now! as is stated in the name will mostly appeal to democrats. I do not see the advertisers as the ones that push a certain kind of news, I think that if the audience doesn't hear what they like they will go elsewhere and the advertisers will follow the audience. When it comes to the code of ethics I think that journalists do follow it, the ones that don't we would consider "unethical" as a person not just as a journalist. I think the hardest thing that a journalist has to do is to report news that the public needs to hear, but the public doesn't want to hear. I see them trying to dress up these pieces of information so that the public knows what is going on. With the way our society works today I don't blame journalists that bend the code a little to make things a little sensationalized or tend to stick to topics that their audience wants to hear.