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RUNNING HEAD: WEB EXCURSION ON MEDIA CRITICISM

Web Excursion on Media Criticism

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Table of Contents

Introduction 3

Impact Issue 3

Legal Issue 5

Ethical Issue 7

Conclusion 9

References 10

In the following paper, the Occupying of Wall Street issue will be analyzed. The three perspectives that will be used as a guideline will be an impact issue, a legal issue, and an ethical issue respectively. Occupy Wall Street is an issue that has been in the media receiving criticism from various media personalities. This analysis will use data and research as found on www.fair.org, which stands for Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. This organization is to report media criticism fairly working with both journalists and activists.

Impact Issue

The impact issue from the perspective of fair.org feels somewhat skewed in the manner of pulling out the most colorful of articles and putting them all together. The impact of this reporting does feel a bit uncomfortable, these actions leaves the reader to fend for his or herself.

Cohen goes on to call Occupy Wall Street "a destination for the aimless...a tourist attraction with the usual vendors, the usual zaftig young women doing the usual arrhythmic dance, somehow missing the beat of many drums." It is also a media event that has captured the flea-thoughts of many Americans...an incoherent articulation of anger at the institutions that have failed us, including--by way of both self-pity and self-flagellation--the media. It seems, above all, a conspiracy to have left-leaning writers make jackasses of themselves by imparting grave and grand meaning to what is little more than a vast sleepover. For good measure, Cohen makes the argument that the right-wing smears of OWS are derived from the left: The imputation of anti-Semitism, however, adds gravitas to this lighthearted event. The smear...