From last week to this week, social media is all spread out
news about McKinney teen pool party. First, I didn’t see the news until Dr.
Hernandez showed the original video in the class. And then, I was surprised how
fast this news spreads through social media after I started to check Facebook
and twitter. Ever this news appeals in my Weibo (one of a Chinese social media
like Facebook). It seems like everyone are talk about it. Some media says if
the person that has a gun pointed to a white do you think this would have any
media coverage? Maybe it will just be local news about a pool party get out of
control and that’s it. This is how media create a division between blacks and
whites. This black plus media news will force everything in to conflict. And I
was watching some of interviewers about this news; it seems like black think
this is not a race problem. In the opposite way, a white female said there is
no problem with that police and he may protect himself if someone behind him
trying to attack. As a foreigner, I just feel this white female is just trying
to stay with white side no matter what the truth is. Honestly, not too much
people know the detail about this violence. But the media has already formed
our opinions after they showed the video to us.
I always think social media is a great way to spread the new
and easy to read news while your family members or friends are sharing it on
social media. But, those kind of racist violence video has spreading through
the media has been for a while. I guess media didn’t think this would be a big
conflict between black and white. And now the situation is seems like out of
control. I hope the media can spread out some positive news in some negative news.
I think that this is a good example of the power of social media. What I ind interesting is that social media can cause events like this to go viral quickly. It also made it easy for me to see different perspectives on what actually happened. It makes it more difficult for the media to push a specific agenda that way.
ReplyDeleteIt's unfortunate that so many things go back to race. People are very quick to point fingers and it's really sad. It is pretty crazy how certain things like this go viral.
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