http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/06/25/climategate_retraction
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-10057-11064
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-02-02-autism-vaccine_N.htm
Today's media only focuses on their ratings. They just want to report the news they are told to report, not caring to find out wether what they are reporting is true or false. The media plays a very important role in today's society what they report becomes the topic we debate about that whole day. The newspaper however is mostly directed to adults, ones who like to stay up to date with current events. They get thier daily dose of news from the newspaper but that same news gets repeated to them a couple of times through out the day. Tv, Radio and the Web. Im surprised that they are still around, with the many sources that exist today a newspaper seems perimitive. We can never really know what we read or what we hear is true, with all the sources available today we should always check more than one for our self to find out the truth, and even then it's still only as true as you are hearing or reading. Conclusion they should be required but who is going to be the unbiased judge.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Should juvenile offenders be tried and punished as adults?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNh232YLsAg
I don't think Juvenile's should be tried as adults. Why? First. They are Juvenile's, they are still young and easily influenced by others. Second. It's not fair for these kids to go to jail with adults because they are only gonna graduate from a life of crime, after all they are going to a place where they house hardened criminals. They are gonna come out mad at the world and in a hurry to make up for the time they lost. They will take shortcuts which will land them back in jail again. This is the sycle that I see in my neighborhood, my friends and peers going in and out of jail. I go visit them in jail and they are so concentrated on coming out and living a good life but, sad to see how quickly this materialistic world consumes them once they come out.
Even for murder I don't think they should be tried as adults because sending them there only makes things worse.
I don't think Juvenile's should be tried as adults. Why? First. They are Juvenile's, they are still young and easily influenced by others. Second. It's not fair for these kids to go to jail with adults because they are only gonna graduate from a life of crime, after all they are going to a place where they house hardened criminals. They are gonna come out mad at the world and in a hurry to make up for the time they lost. They will take shortcuts which will land them back in jail again. This is the sycle that I see in my neighborhood, my friends and peers going in and out of jail. I go visit them in jail and they are so concentrated on coming out and living a good life but, sad to see how quickly this materialistic world consumes them once they come out.
Even for murder I don't think they should be tried as adults because sending them there only makes things worse.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
The Man With The Golden Voice
Ted Williams got 15 minutes of fame as fast as he went off the medias attention. I blame the media for all of this, for using someones hardship and mistakes and publicly criticizing a man. The media took advantage of this story just like any other story they make a big deal out of it and only focus on the negativity. However at the same time the same media is responsible for getting him off the streets and actually provided him with the tools needed to start a new life. I know that he will never fully recover and be clean but as long as he gets his life together and at least tries to maintain. Nobody's perfect and we all make mistakes the difference is the ones that learn from it and move one versus the ones that give up and stay down.
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