Trace Johnson
JMC 305
8/27/15
Assignment #2
The
New York Times article on Michael Brown lacked sensitivity to the situation and
could easily be seen as disrespectful.
Although
the writer knows what he’s talking about in regards to the life of Brown, much
of the article comes off as disrespect.
The
writer did not take into consideration the family of Brown and what they must
have been going through. Not only that,
but the article states that there was a mistake made in it.
“An
article on Monday about the life of Michael Brown, the unarmed teenager killed
by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., misstated the surname of Mr. Brown’s
uncle, who recalled talking to his nephew about how to interact with police
officers. He is Bernard Ewing, not Ewings.”
It’s
hard enough to take an already somewhat controversial article seriously, but
when there is a stated error in it, it gets even harder.
Despite
the factual information presented in the article, it’s hard to shake how this article
comes off. It comes off as disrespectful
in places and insensitive to an already sensitive situation.
Whether
or not that was what the writer was trying to accomplish, that is how it ended
up.
