Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Take Charge Assignment


I think i would like to focus the take charge thing by looking at how the media responds to tragedies and accidents, like the Minnesota bridge collapse, columbia space ship explosion, mine collapses, and college violence. i would mainly like to focus on how the media takes a retroactive approach the the problems exposed by such accidents. so instead of looking to see if all tunnels are safe from collapsing, they feel they must cover and put attention on all bridge inspections, but when the next tunnel collapses it'll be 0ut of the blue. i just find it interesting on how something bad will happen and the media will focus on it for a long time into the future, like recent mine collapses have become a hot topic for news coverage recently. overall, i want to see the medias response to disasters and what they put public spotlight on and what trends are like between accidents covered and how "popular" the problem is.

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