Read up on the Rupert Murdoch phone scandal. You can find some links (from TIME online) I posted up in Week 6, as well as read up on the Newsweek coverage of the news. In relation to the news coverage on the scandal, answer the question: "The news media should be blamed for the unhealthy paparazzi culture and going to the extremes for sensational news. How far do you agree?"
The news media should be blamed for using such unscrupulous and underhanded methods in acquiring sensational and sizzling scoops for the paper , phone hacking and hacking of emails is way too extreme. Ultimately i feel its not the news media fault entirely, we also have a part in this.What they are trying to do is just to earn a living and suiting to the demands of the readers so it is us the readers who demand for secrets of celebrities and such. They are just merely doing their job to meet this demand. If we do not demand for such news there would not be such a need for such news and them resorting to underhanded ways.So in order to stop this we must start from ourselves, to stop this kind of behavior we have to stop purchasing such papers to read and lower the demand so that there is no such need for such news.All in all we must start with a change of our very being.
Hi Hui Sheng,
ReplyDeleteI guess big words for a big guy. Although you have stated all the points, I think you have to elaborate more as it is too simple. And please make the words smaller
- Hao Ming