Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Reading Log #1
In the Oregonian, on January 12, 2007 on the front page, they printed an article called "Man Says Firefighters beat him." I think this story is newsworthy because it has impact. It is important for citizens to know if firefighters and policeman are abusing there power. This article also contains the quality of conflict because there is a different account of what is happening by the firfighters and the man attacked. It is also a timely article since the event happened very recently. This is an article that deserves to be on the front page.
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I gott agree with you Nathan, there will always be two sides to every story. A little food for thought is that there will always be people out there that whenever they are in the middle of an incident they will always try to blame it on someone else, usally the one with more power. But to say that that story should be on the front page cant really say I agree. Maybe the fire that the man was involved in would probably work on the front page, but not the man claiming he got "beat up" by a fire fighter. It just seems like a redundent story for me.
Thanks for your comment, but I am sticking with my original stance that this is newsworthy and did deserve to be on the front page. Actually, I am surprised there hasn's been more news coverage on this specific incident. There is a video of this and from the video it looks like the firemen are beating up the guy. One of the firemen is kicking the guy. It seems that these public officials ure using unnecessary force. I believe citizens should be aware of incidents like this, and I hope they would be concerned.
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