Sunday, October 18, 2009

Some Stories shouldn't all be commented.

I recently Read what Trisha Hackman wrote in her blog about the transition to electronic media. In particular I thought about what she said about the "Interaction" with digital media, and I realized I agree with her in reguards to people keeping comments to themselves Recently somone in my city was murdered and it made the local news and it's website. Shortly after the story was posted a link was posted that showed a link to the alleged murder's facebook. Suddenly his facebook, which was there for his kids to see, was filled with all kinds of hate mail, telling him to "Go to hell" and all sorts of nasty things. In today's version of the media, we are allowing people to not only interact with the writer of the story, but we are allowing them to interact with those involved in the news. This could impact everything, including the trial and lives of the rest of the victims family.

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