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I had just finished watching Spotlight, phenomenal movie. It kept my engagement all throughout. That is because it was such an interesting story. I did not know how much goes into writing a story to this caliber. The fact that the whole city of Boston knew about this huge scandal and it was being covered up is appalling. I loved Mike Rezendes’ (writer from the movie) passion to cover this story and expose the Catholic Church system. It is crazy that those houses for those bad priest existed. Where are the good Catholic ethics when it comes to your own priest molesting children basically in the name of God. Ruining the church for all the victims. The film also did a great job at depicting what it is like to be a reporter and many things which go into working for a newspaper. I also love when reporters dig up scandals like this and exploit people for wrong doings. I am in an Environmental Journalism class and have to do a similar thing just with an environmental topic. I viewed the film as a guide on how to track down sources and documents. I have never done this before and I was able to get some tips on how to go about it the right way.

Although I do not read the newspaper, I think they are essential to our society. Without them, our world would go uninformed on so much. The news writers spend hours, months, and years working on stories. They dedicate so much time to the stories they write, taking time away from their friends and family. To be a writer/reporter for a newspaper truly takes a different breed of a person- someone who is completely passionate about their work.

Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press started everything with the distribution of news to the general public, and fast forwarded things a lot with reading in general. The newspapers nowadays can at times be biased depending on who is the one controlling the content. I would like to think that doesn’t exist but at the end of the day people are people and we have our own opinions.

Yellow journalism is so necessary in this world we live in. These are the stories that grab peoples’ eye and they are eager to read. In other words “the juicy stuff.” But I don’t like how these reporters are sometimes diving into peoples lives and reporting on topics that don’t need to be reported on. Such as a celebrities’ sexual orientation being front page news, when in reality it is nobody’s business. At one time we thought it was okay and it happened frequently and I think it happens less now. Because times are different now from compared to 10 years ago. But say something like a Jeffery Epstein story, that needs to be put out and heard about. Ethics is not a huge part of yellow journalism, sometimes you have to hurt feelings in the process. I wouldn’t like hurting people, especially if they didn’t deserve to be slandered.