Friday, October 9, 1998
Speaks Out
The media have come under public scrutiny for their coverage of
the recent presidential scandal. What issues, besides the Clinton
investigation, should the media be reporting on? To which issues do
you feel the media have given too much coverage? Which issues have
been ignored?
"These days, there is such a corruption in society, the moral
values are all screwed up, and sometimes the media kind of
contributes to that. As the media, their job is to inform us. I
think it would be nice having the media contributing to a moral
factor. There should be more ethics involved."
Daniel Chu
First-year
Biology
"I feel that the media should report on anything that the public
likes – whatever is good for the public at the time: war, poverty,
human interest. I think the media’s doing a pretty good job right
now. They should try to answer the public’s views and also try to
bring in new views that maybe the public doesn’t know about and
spark public interest in those areas."
Jeff Mayes
Fourth-year
Political Science
"I feel that the media should focus more on education and trying
to improve everyone’s education."
Issis Macias
Fourth-year
Political Sciences
"I feel that the newsworthy issues are the issues that affect
individuals rather than scandals and media hyped-up issues. I think
we should give more publicity to local issues such as local races
for political offices and different campus issues that affect
students and their interests."
Katheryn Manlore
Third-year
English
"The media should report on issues affecting the most
wide-ranged group of people – politics and local government. They
should report more on the lower communities of Los Angeles, like
the poor and the children. They spend too much time on crime, which
isn’t as big of a factor as the media makes it out to be."
Kristina Caberto
Fourth-year
Communication Studies
"I think the media should report more on racial issues between
different cultures because I think it’s a problem, it’s gotten kind
of ridiculous. I think the truth would emerge and we’d all benefit
from the investigataion between problems between races, because
race is everything in America."
Gavin Fields
Fourth-year
Philosphy
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