oops, an AP reporter has been fired after investigation proved that he made up the names of the sources. now if only someone would do something about all those horrible newsfolk at foxnews. i watched it yesterday when they were talking with the three medical students (the terror scare in fla), omg...the woman (the interviewer) was dreadful, asking leading questions as if she knew the whole story already before the men could even speak. ugh! dreadful.
i used to want to be a journalist, when i first started college, i even got admitted to a youth program (they chose 6 out of 600 people) when i was 15. i really wanted to be one, but, pressure from family on the difficulty and the danger, no support...all caused me to not pursue it. i wonder if i would have made up sources, or judged the people i was interviewing or if i would have been a good one. who knows right? i think that i would have been kick-arse, if you ask me!
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got into an arguement with a friend, took me by total surprise when she became hurt at something i said jokingly. i was insensitive i think but i had no idea, absolutely no idea, that i would hurt her. what sucks is that i thought that we were too good of friends for her to think that i meant to hurt her, and that's how it felt at the time, that she really thought that i would hurt her. ugh! so at the end i was hurt.
she called me this morning, she explained things, and i explained things, we both felt bad, but i am...still feeling...a bit odd...i can't explain it...as if it damaged something in the relationship...i am sure it will all be fine soon. right?
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i am happy to see the three medical students all over the media, larry king, fox, etc., they are trying to tell their side of the story. i love that. they are saying that there was a major misunderstanding, that they didn't say anything of the sort, that everything was taken out of context. i want to believe them, so i will. but eunice is sticking with her story. if these guys are telling the truth, i wish that eunice would do the US a favor and just admit that maybe things were taken out of context, it's possible that she misheard them.
all i know is that if these men had an accent, the american public would have been less likely to empathize with them...and i truly believe that even if the whole thing was a misunderstanding, the men may have been less likely to come forward if they had an accent. out of fear maybe, or dischantment at having been judged and feeling that coming out and talking about it won't help for they will not be believed b/c of the color of their skin, the way they dress, and the accent...all things that make them too foreign to the american public. a public that would not be able to identify with them.
of course now there are the six yemeni men, who are very americanized, very much respected by a community of blacks, whites as well as yemeni...now suspected of belonging to the al queda. now the american public will really never trust muslims, middle easterners, or any brown skinned folk. so now even being americanized isn't enough to feel american and deserving of not being judged.
i used to want to be a journalist, when i first started college, i even got admitted to a youth program (they chose 6 out of 600 people) when i was 15. i really wanted to be one, but, pressure from family on the difficulty and the danger, no support...all caused me to not pursue it. i wonder if i would have made up sources, or judged the people i was interviewing or if i would have been a good one. who knows right? i think that i would have been kick-arse, if you ask me!
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got into an arguement with a friend, took me by total surprise when she became hurt at something i said jokingly. i was insensitive i think but i had no idea, absolutely no idea, that i would hurt her. what sucks is that i thought that we were too good of friends for her to think that i meant to hurt her, and that's how it felt at the time, that she really thought that i would hurt her. ugh! so at the end i was hurt.
she called me this morning, she explained things, and i explained things, we both felt bad, but i am...still feeling...a bit odd...i can't explain it...as if it damaged something in the relationship...i am sure it will all be fine soon. right?
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i am happy to see the three medical students all over the media, larry king, fox, etc., they are trying to tell their side of the story. i love that. they are saying that there was a major misunderstanding, that they didn't say anything of the sort, that everything was taken out of context. i want to believe them, so i will. but eunice is sticking with her story. if these guys are telling the truth, i wish that eunice would do the US a favor and just admit that maybe things were taken out of context, it's possible that she misheard them.
all i know is that if these men had an accent, the american public would have been less likely to empathize with them...and i truly believe that even if the whole thing was a misunderstanding, the men may have been less likely to come forward if they had an accent. out of fear maybe, or dischantment at having been judged and feeling that coming out and talking about it won't help for they will not be believed b/c of the color of their skin, the way they dress, and the accent...all things that make them too foreign to the american public. a public that would not be able to identify with them.
of course now there are the six yemeni men, who are very americanized, very much respected by a community of blacks, whites as well as yemeni...now suspected of belonging to the al queda. now the american public will really never trust muslims, middle easterners, or any brown skinned folk. so now even being americanized isn't enough to feel american and deserving of not being judged.
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