The fault does NOT entirely lies within the news media, although I agree it is partially. Most of the arrows actually points to the puplic who actually encouraged the news media into doing so.
In this phone hacking scandal, although it was the news media, in this case , the news of the world who went to the extreme and hacked into phones of family members of victims of accidents, they were doing it due to the number of people reading such "interesting" reports written from the information they have gotten from phone-hacking.
Phone hacking is one of the obvious examples of going into the extreme, there are other cases when the news media actually sneaked into celebrities' houses and report about their home. These acts are invading others privacy. The public should have reacted sooner instead waiting until they realised that civilians are the victims too. if they have reacted faster, perhaps the media would have learnt their lessons earlier and lesser people would be involved in this scandal.
They obvious reason why the media hacked into phones was to hunt for valueable and interesting informations that could help in increasing its readers and earn more. the civilians should change their mind set of only celebrities are worth watching or reading and perhaps these paparazzi actions would decrease .
The fault lies within the news media, but not totally. civilians are at fault too.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
week 5 blog post
I do not think true justice exists. At the end of the trial scene, Shylock did not manage to get his deserved piece of flesh from Antonio. He was further questioned and dared by Portia not to drop a drip a vlood if he wanted to cut the flesh of Antonio. Justice seems to be achieve from the scene but I think, perhaps not.
I agree that to the Christians including Antonia and Portia, Shylock deserves the punishments he got in the end-- converting to Christianity. However, think from Shylock's point of view-----is it true justice or even mercy?
Shylock signed a bond with Shylock and is legally supported by law that Shylock ought to get Antonio's flesh.However, Portia managed to change the whole situation despite we know that Shylock deserves the flesh. Although Portia asked Shylock for mercy which he rejected, Portia herself neither granted the "holy" mercy she mentioned in her speech to Shylock in the end.
Now at the start of the post, I mentioned that there is no real justice. Shylock thinks that justice is the law and it is firm and always right. The Christians, however, thinks another way. They think that justice is bringing Shylock to the hell. Justice has a variety of meaning to other people.
There is also no true mercy. Mercy seasons Justice. This is what Portia said but did she herself achieved this? I doubt so. She made Shylock into a living skeleton and took away most of his happiness in life.
I agree that to the Christians including Antonia and Portia, Shylock deserves the punishments he got in the end-- converting to Christianity. However, think from Shylock's point of view-----is it true justice or even mercy?
Shylock signed a bond with Shylock and is legally supported by law that Shylock ought to get Antonio's flesh.However, Portia managed to change the whole situation despite we know that Shylock deserves the flesh. Although Portia asked Shylock for mercy which he rejected, Portia herself neither granted the "holy" mercy she mentioned in her speech to Shylock in the end.
Now at the start of the post, I mentioned that there is no real justice. Shylock thinks that justice is the law and it is firm and always right. The Christians, however, thinks another way. They think that justice is bringing Shylock to the hell. Justice has a variety of meaning to other people.
There is also no true mercy. Mercy seasons Justice. This is what Portia said but did she herself achieved this? I doubt so. She made Shylock into a living skeleton and took away most of his happiness in life.
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