You have been reading about the genocide in Rwanda. This event raises interesting questions about the media's involvement in current events and crises. For Response #2, you will write one paragraph to answer each of the following questions.
What should we expect from the media; how can we hold them accountable?
What is the level of public responsibility when issues are brought to light
by the media?
Use the case of genocide in Rwanda as a specific example to form your general opinion.
Include, for each paragraph:
1. A topic sentence that rephrases the question and tells the reader your opinion.
2. An example from the book/movie/or news segment.
3. An example from life or your experience.
4. An explanation about how these examples apply to your opinion.
5. A transition that connects the two paragraphs.
This response must be posted to your blog by NOON on 10/16.
Some of the things that you can expect from the media is exaggerated truth about whats actually going on. The media is just interpreting of what they know and not what they are seeing. But on of the things that we should expect are lies, Death and warnings. We can hold them accountable for making this more of a calamity then it already is. The media is like the fuel and the fight is the fire and the media is only fueling the fire between the two giving information out to the antagonist which are the Hutu's. For an example from which in the movie when the Hutu's were on there way from escaping the radio and there transmission were letting the Hutu's know that that tuts were escaping and they caught them in the act in back of a truck. The media condones only more violence and information to transcend to others letting them be aware to whats going on.
ReplyDeleteThe public responsibility is to find out for themselves and not let the media influence them into believing everything. once people start believing what they hear or see in the media they become gullible to lies and that will only fume the fight even More. For an example the Genocide no one actually knew what was going on and the Americans were about to be involved knowing little to know exactly what was going on. But when you listen to the media your taking the media words and not the person that is experiencing whats going on.