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Chapter 5: Privacy: Looking for Solitude in the Global Village

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Case 5-D

Anderson Cooper's Not-So Private Life

Micro Issues

1/  Is Cooper's sexual orientation news? Should it be news?

We are by nature as human beings love very interference in personal matters and we want to know everything, whether this news benefit us or not. Besides we always strive to buy newspapers and magazines where there are news scandals or defamation. Became the obsession of all people is to know personal details of others and people became enjoying of gossip. Even that most of people check the social media like Twitter or Facebook just to have a Private life and personality of someone or anyone and they just want to find a story or an issue to talk about, so, this is what encourages the media to show and discuss private things people. I cannot approval or objection to Cooper's sexual inclinations and I have no right to do so neither I nor anyone else, especially if this case happened in a country which supports freedom in all respects. I really want to salute the Cooper's courage, but all this gossip got because of their sexual orientation and the statement made by Cooper, and it means that the media and America still have a problem with homosexuality and still considered this situation kind of deviation. In this case we need to privacy and according to what I read the privacy is not a luxury or even a gift of a benevolent government. it is a necessary component of a democracy.  Despite all that, the personal life or sexual orientation of anyone is not a subject to debate at all because it kind of sorts of privacy. Actuality, excites me curiosity about this question, is there any importance to know the sexual orientation of any person? Is there a need to take this kind of news all this space of interest?

Midrange Issues

2/ Journalists often work for organizations that require them to have a "Facebook presence" what sort of information should be on such a professional Facebook page?

In my point of view, I think that the journalist can put the general information and what the public already know. I believe that is no need to mention any private details could harm the institution. Journalist is not free to act as he pleases like what many people think for two reasons, the first one is that Journalist belong to institution keen on its image and position in society on the one hand and social responsibility of the press on the other hand as a socially active, he has roles in the community requires him to act in a responsible manner.

3/ Reconcile the concepts of transparency and privacy, as you understand them.

Transparency is a magic word if you do what you say, it means in language that the transparent thing that does not obscure what behind. But in general, transparency is the honesty and truthfulness in our lives means value and not a slogan to strengthen the trust between you and the others. In contrast, privacy is basic human rights, which sparked widespread controversy on the historical range. I had read definition of privacy, which is really expressive, and that is the region of the individual's life that people enjoy violated whenever they get the chance. So, I think that privacy is something very important for transparency. The concept of transparency is useless without privacy, and accountability and transparency can be meaningful only if it is encapsulated within the framework of privacy.

Chapter 8: picture this: the ethics of photo and video journalism

Case 8 – B

What do I do first?

Micro Issues

2/ this incident had a happy ending. Do you think Herbert's response should have changed if the two women (they were sisters) had died, either at the scene or later? How might the photographs have changed?

Yes, I think will happen to a radical change in the photos or even on the psyche of the photographer if he could not save the situation that happened front of his eyes. When I read the text I felt a sense of the photographer and the extent of his joy when the two sisters were rescued from death. It became a beautiful day instead of a tragic day as what the photographer said.

Midrange Issues

3/ Evaluate the composition and aesthetics of this photograph. Does it constitute a "good" photograph in terms of craft?

According to what I read about aesthetics and ethics in chapter 8, the editors often said that necessary to consider the good, the true and the beautiful at the same time as looking at the photograph. This picture is really expressive picture combines the good and the true at one time. It is worth to mentioning that there is an influential story behind this picture.  

Macro Issues

1/ should the AP reward Herbert for his actions?  

There is a close relationship between incentives and rewards in the work and its impact on the performance of the workers so that it helps the employees to give their best. In addition, motive is something internal stems from the same individual and raises the desire to do something specific. Depending on that, I think there was a motivation from Herbert to do the right thing. The institution should give the Herbert a reward or honor him in any way to become a model for others in the provision of humanitarian work on his job as a photographer so he even forgot his job for a while and did not pick up any photograph only after ensuring the safety of the two sisters.

 

About the attacks and satirical magazine in Paris.

First of all, must be emphasized that nothing can justify the killing of 12 people, but this does not conflict with the reminder that to offend any religious doctrine or messenger or religious symbol, is completely unacceptable, because it is result to hurt feelings of millions of Muslims. This is not repression of freedom of opinion, freedom of opinion  means to stop at the borders of the others. However, respond wisely and mind or ignoring is the best way to answer in such this situations.