Never Stay Silent

 Jimmy Breslin was born October 17, 1928 and is known as one of the most famous journalists who ever lived. He wrote many novels and columns, most notably famous for writing pieces for New York Daily News.  His work in the world of journalism opened the door of opportunities and provided help and inspiration to the generation before him. He became most famous after he was mentioned in the Sunday edition of Clay Felker's supplement piece of the Tribune. It was at this point where he gained most fame and credibility and was welcomed and accepted in the world of journalism. It was an opportunity that he would never forget. His writing style was famous because of the ability to brash embodiment of the street-smart New Yorker, chronicling wise guys and big-city power brokers but always offered a sympathetic viewpoint of the working-class people of New York City.  In his earlier days as a teenager, he left college at Long Island University after just two years. He is most famous during h

How does journalism affect war? For starters, it all depends on what the story states is true and false. The question we should be asking, is that "Is it really true? Or is it false?" One piece of work that caught my attention was the peace journalism article I found where it talked about the War with the Middle East.  In the article, it describes how journalists are only interested in certain topics that the company would feel is "marketable and guaranteed to make them a quick buck." The first example that came across my attention, was about peace journalism. Peace journalism, according to the article, sets out to fix the bias in the media when they decide to stretch the truth to make more money in sales because it would be a selling story as opposed to the right story.  Journalism is affecting war in ways where they try to pin people against each other and all to make a quick buck. Deeper into the article, I discovered that a man named Jake Lynch provided some goo

 Yellow Journalism is defined as American used terms to describe articles or stories that provide little to no legitimate well researched news where instead they prefer to what is known as "eye catching" headlines to increase profit sales. The term first came into the public eye in the early 1900's when New York City newspaper companies battled for circulation.   Author W. Joseph Campbell of the book "Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the myths, defining the legacies" describes yellow journalism as having daily multi-column front-page headlines covering a variety of topics, such as sports and scandal, using bold layouts and self promotion. It is known to cause harm and do more harm than good. This is because Yellow Journalism as one of the causes as to why the US-Spanish War happened in the first place. Pulitzer and Hearst are credited as the main cause because the sensational stories of the terrible conditions in Cuba. Frank Luther Mott gave some advice while readi

This film about the life of Sunil Tripathi was one that was incredibly emotional and human. The Boston bombing was one of the most tragic and devastating events of the 21st century and when it occurred when I was very young and naive about the world around me. At that impressionable age, my mind was a sponge and I would believe just about anything that anyone told me. At 21 years old now, I consider myself to be an independent thinker and also an open-minded one as well. I do not like popular culture telling me what I should or should not believe and that is something that makes me aggravated about social media platforms and how mass media uses these platforms as valid resources for evidence to support society’s implicit bias about a person.   When I educated myself more on not only the disappearance of Sunil Tripathi, but also the overall life story of this talented, intelligent college student, it made me feel heartbroken and aggravated that people would target a family in their time