Monday, February 7, 2011
About Internet and the Media.
So last night I typed out this long involved post having to do with the Internet and the media and i forgot to post it. But then this morning I was watching the news and I saw that Lifetime channel has made a movie about the U.S. girl that supposedly killed her room mate in Italy, and normally I would not find this to interesting. But the fact of the matter that the family is trying to not get the movie to air in the U.S, till after the appeal because of the Internet and all other resources that may leak this movie over seas. This makes me think that back 50 years ago this would not have mattered. The lawyers for this girl are saying because of new technology the girl will not get a fair trial. And I think the fact of the matter the Internet can help make things in media spread quickly and it does help many things positivly, but with this spicific case this movie can spread overseas and make this girls trial very unfair. So the Internet and media can go well together with the new technologies that are comming out, but it can also harm too.
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That is very true about the media leaking information. There have been some cases that have led to mis trial do to information leaking from the media. Now days with the internet information can get around in a blink of an eye! I have often thought during war (Gulf war and the Iraq war) why the media has to announce what our military was going to do next. Videaos were released and made it on the internet when a soldier was captured. The media and internet can be bad at times.
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing how the internet can spread information in a matter of seconds and disperse it to a wide spread audience. They even have a term for this called going viral. Basically when a video, song, post or web site gets a lot of hits very quickly they consider it as going viral. Justin Bieber became a pop star from a you tube video in months or the most recent viral sensation was Ted Williams, the homeless guy who became popular overnight.
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