11. Please compare and contrast the following
assessments of the social meaning of the wrongful convictions and the
subsequent partial exoneration of the five young men.
The
Nation : Patricia Williams http://www.thenation.com/article/173910/lessons-central-park-five#
N.Y.
Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com/services/central-park-five
Columbia
Journalism Review: Lynnell Hancock http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/wolfpack.pdf
The New
York Times: Jim Dwyer http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/nyregion/central-park-five-petition-oversimplifies-blame-in-a-collective-failure.html?_r=1&
Washington
Post: George Will http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-f-will-central-park-five-tells-of-a-gross-miscarriage-of-justice/2013/04/12/982d024c-a2d3-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html
22. Use the model that we have developed to analyze
the role of the media in the frenzy that led to this miscarriage of justice.
Please list examples if the following
a)
Shared revelation
b)
Individual enlightenment
c)
Individual and collective deception and illusion
d)
Propagandistic manipulation
33. With regard to advocacy journalism, why must the
impulse toward action be tempered? When and how are facts distorted in the
pursuit of cognitive “closure”? In the absence of malice, what else explains
the veiling of truth and the pervasiveness of “dark figures” in the newspaper
account of the jogger case? Would precision journalism have succumbed to the
same temptations that entranced narrative journalism in the Central Park Five
case?
44. Contrast this case with the episode at the heart
of Bob Dylan’s “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”? Should we view this media
carnival of terrors through the lens of class rather than race?
The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/feb/25/bobdylan
Listen to the song and then blog your answer
titled “ The Fractured Media Lens of Class”
1. Of these five different sources I find N.Y. Daily News to be most resourceful. By creating a timeline and short facts with pictures it's appealing and easy to understand; linking to full articles for people who want to get deeper into the story. Opinions differ with who is writing. With the Central Park Five case an article written by a black person would differ from a story written by a white person, because of the race case.
2. In advocacy journalism there is a more biased opinion So with many different journalists all writing stories what is there to believe? What is true? Often this can lead to the miscarriage of justice because the articles won't be understood correctly. The wording in an article can simply weigh a person's beliefs to what the writer wants them to believe. It's all about the words you use in journalism, everything comes back to rhetoric truth.
3. Facts are distorted when we pick sides, get information from unworthy sources, and don't dig out the full story. In the jogger case, an article written with the statement "dark figures" people are to believe these people who attacked, these "dark figures" are not white people and must be black. Who would you be more likely to blame with a rape and assault a group of white teens or a group of black teens?
4. Race plays a part in everything, something we can't break away from.
2. In advocacy journalism there is a more biased opinion So with many different journalists all writing stories what is there to believe? What is true? Often this can lead to the miscarriage of justice because the articles won't be understood correctly. The wording in an article can simply weigh a person's beliefs to what the writer wants them to believe. It's all about the words you use in journalism, everything comes back to rhetoric truth.
3. Facts are distorted when we pick sides, get information from unworthy sources, and don't dig out the full story. In the jogger case, an article written with the statement "dark figures" people are to believe these people who attacked, these "dark figures" are not white people and must be black. Who would you be more likely to blame with a rape and assault a group of white teens or a group of black teens?
4. Race plays a part in everything, something we can't break away from.
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