While reading the Alternet article about the
Roanoke, VA shooting, so many questions popped in to my head. Does the video of
the shooting really matter because it showed a death, or because it gave
evidence against the killer? Are the deaths of the news broadcasters tragic
because it was televised or because of the misfortunate reason why they were
killed? Is it wrong to broadcast the video all over television to inform the
world of what has happened? This is the time when technology has definitely
been used for the worse. However, is the blame placed on technology or on the
person who posts it? The shooter simply did what any other sixteen year-old
teenager is doing, tweeting about his day. Of course the topic is not about a
high school crush, but boundaries have not been set stating the “do’s and don’ts”
of what not to post in the Twitter world. In the article, it brought up the
fact that CNN was only showing the video of the shooting once every hour. I
looked at CNN’s Twitter account to see some responses, and they posed ethical
interpretations. Some tweeters were stating that CNN should not continue to
show the video because of how horrifying it was to see, and it is a sensitive
nature. Other responses stated that the video was important to the story and
needed to be shown for an informative reason. Is it ethical for CNN to
constantly play the video for the sake of information, or should the topic just
be discussed without the video being seen? Should restrictions be placed on
technology in order to uphold ethical standards of humanity? The realm of technology
was clearly to advance for this circumstance, and was too much for people to
handle. However, does this mean that technology will stop progressing based on
this event alone?
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