Saturday, October 6, 2007

dont tazer me bro 10-6-07

I am on CNN.com right now and there is a HUGE box that you can click on to watch the “don’t tazer me bro” clip from September 18th when the student asked Kerry a question and then was handcuffed and tazered by police. Although the clip was interesting to watch, but no means is it current, relevant, or newsworthy. I think this is visual bias in its most basic sense. I also think this is structural bias, because I’m sure cnn’s website traffic has increased because people just want to click on that clip, instead of getting real news.

1 comment:

Writing Prof said...

Good point. MOre just an interesting clip than anything very newsworthy. Part of the pop culture zeitgeist.