right to privacy
The right to privacy has become a very heated issue in recent years and it concerns the lives of many people around the world. Constitutionally speaking, citizens within the United States are not protected against having their picture taken, no matter where they are, and they are also not guarded against being interviewed. Over the last 20 years or so, people have become very interested in the lives of others and are always left with wanting for more, friends and neighbors overhear conversations and are automatically drawn to them, feeling as if they have the right to know what is going on. We live in a society, nowadays, where every little action is scrutinized, whether it is good or bad, and it is picked apart in every way imaginable throughout all conversations. There are mixed feelings concerning this topic, on one hand there are those kind of people that live for that special kind of attention and on the other hand there are the type of people, under any and all circumstances, who do not want the publicity. The media, both television and newspaper, has the job, sometimes very difficult and uncomfortable job,
The stories that were discussed in class demonstrated how productive the paper could be as well as how harsh it can seem. When families suffer tragedies, such as when the little boy drowned in the lake, it is a time when the family would like to be alone and comfort each other. The photographer took a very revealing photograph, which in the family's opinion should not have been taken, and it disturbed many people. The photographer decided to take the picture in order to further illustrate the story and make it hit closer to home, but the fact of the matter is that the picture showed the family, with the boy not even fully in the body bag, at the most inopportune time. In defense of the photographer, he or she was only trying to do their job and get the best picture for the paper, but it was not their decision to which picture would be illustrated. The editor has the final say in terms of what will or will not be printed and in regards to this picture, the editor and the photographer showed poor taste. As a result of the increasing interest of the public to know all the happenings around the world, it has become a case of entertai
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Approximate Word count = 769
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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