Inside Sources: The New Ugly Normal

It once again wouldn’t allow me link the website so I screenshotted the title line and linked it above.

Out of the 6 articles I chose to use for this blog, this one hit me the hardest. Just reading simply the title, you know that how the news was spread after Kobe’s death is “The new ugly normal.” And honestly, I could see it get worse. This article goes down all of the routes on how the media decides to cover stories like these and found new one’s that they have yet to hit. They also mention the Washington Post reporter who was suspended from the paper for tweeting a link to a story about Kobe’s sexual assault allegations, the same day of his death.

It is just a ugly, ugly time we live in with how much coverage and access the media has and will continue to get. This article, as well as, the five before all correlated with chapter 5 from our text, Media Ethics, on privacy. They don’t have any besides inside the walls of their homes. Step foot out your house, you will be seeing a picture of you in a magazine. It has just got out of hand and like the article states, it’s not going to get better.

The ethical conflict from this article is simply, professional athletes and celebrities don’t have a right of privacy anymore. After thinking long and hard about a pro from this article, I couldn’t end up finding one or coming up with one. A con from this article is that the world we live in, with the media, is not going to get better anytime soon. My plain and simple solution to this issue is to limit the access reporters get and don’t praise news outlets for being the first to report a story.