The Watergate

We usually call “Something gate” when inappropriate political activities is revealed to the public in Korea. I didn’t know why media and people called it”-gate”, but I learned it was derived from the Watergate, immoral and illegal activities of politics in the U.S. The movie “All the President Men” described the event in details as the story “Watergate Forces the President to His Knees”.

Bob Woodward and Carl Berstein, rookies in journalism at that time, created an enormous innovation of journalism. Verification of journalism had been on the reporting from editors and reporters. They fulfilled verification of journalism in actions more than words. They dealt in depth with the Watergate by investigating all the materials about the event even though they spent lots of time figuring out what associated with the Watergate and who meddled in it.

Through this direct action and clear investigation, the power of journalism was boomed and the new concept of journalism came out. Their contribution to today’s journalism can’t be represented all in words.

Evacuation at Wall Street

     The Occupy Wall Street was evacuated by authorities in Zuccoti Park right after we went there to interview protesters. They seemed to be there until the economic situation would be recovered but they were forced by the police and didn’t get over it. Why would they have to be forced to get out of there and lose their right to demonstrate in Zuccoti Park?

     The protesters of the Occupy Wall Street just stayed there to appeal for the better situation to the government and major financial corporates in Wall Street. There was also no armed protest except for the suppression over the protesters. They were just evacuated and suppressed by the police who got paid from the taxes that the protesters paid, it didn’t make any sense. All the protesters not only lost the place they had demonstrated but they also lost their right to appeal what they wanted to the surroundings. Was it the right answer to put the issue down forever?

     All the protesters still keep working on it at the other places and they will keep going until the government and major financial corporates hear what they say and what they want. The Authorities could evacuate them from demonstration places whenever they want but they never evacuate what the people appeal to them. The protesters’ minds are getting colder and colder just like the weather in winter is getting colder.

Interview at the hot spot

Since Occupy Wall Street became a big issue in the U.S, Protesters of the demonstration have gathered with the same hope and stayed at the hot spot, Zuccoti Park located around Wall St. People in the U.S have been through financial difficulty since economic status got down all over the world, especially in America. There were no chances to appeal it to the government, because most of them were powerless citizens. The only thing they could do was to gather together and demonstrate for it. It was not a riot, or war, it was just appeal for the better status in people’s lives as citizens who had their own rights to do that. The people who I interviewed with some questions our professor gave us were there, at the hot spot, with their own purposes but the same hope just like other people. Apollo Mark, 49, computer service, said he thought it was an opportunity to make a difference and change and the only thing he wanted was to live ordinary life, like lying down comfortably on the couch as stretching the legs out. One guy, who wanted to be anonymous, also said he was unemployed after graduating 4 year college with student loan, but there was no opportunity to get a job because of the economic crisis. He was just angry at the government and financial corporates in wall St which was the starting point of the economic crisis.
Occupy Wall Street was not just demonstration for the economic crisis in Wall St. Protesters didn’t want to see big changes in everything during the depression, they just wanted to see how the government and the financial corporates tried to make it better. Protesters still have the wishes on the street.

Zuccoti Park

Union sq at halloween

Example of the code of ethics

I would take the food without any cares like human instinct and do focus on what I should do exactly. If I didn’t take it and later felt hungry before reviewing for the film, my feeling for the paper would be not good although the buffet that the film company set up was right in front of me. It would definitely influence the review. The chocolate my wife likes is nothing related to what I review for the paper. It’s just her business, when I write something, everything depends on me, reviewer, I do act independently, alone, just like the list of codes of ethic.

Act independently

avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived.

refuse special treatment.

disclose unavoidable conflicts.

(Andreas Christoforous and Jeff Boyd)

Occupy all over the streets of the world

     Occupy Wall Street has been occurred over a month, a number of protesters have increased from 80 to over 1500. It’s been getting serious more and more, not only lots of journalism in the U.S reported this big event, but also journalism in other countries dealt with this event too.

     Economic status all around the world has gradually been down, many people have been through difficulty in financial problem. They didn’t just reveal their thoughts about what was going on in economics and tried to overcome it on their own. However, after journalism in the U.S closely reported the demonstration on Wall Street, people in the other countries understood why the protesters tried to demonstrate against all the major financial company and the government. So people all around the world formed the public to not only help the protesters but also try to make the economic crisis in their countries better just like the protesters did on Wall Street, because they don’t just watch it and want to let it go forever as citizens. They have to do something for a better future, they know one person can’t do anything but they’re surely aware of the fact that people gathered with same purpose can do anything to get what they want. That is why the demonstration spread out to the major cities of all over the world. Unfortunately, some people who just saw what happened on Wall St and the other places through the news, and didn’t know what exactly the purpose for the demonstration was responded to the problem emotionally and occurred the demonstration violently.

     It’s so easy to share all the information with people all around world through journalism. People do understood worldwide financial problem and tried to find out how the problem could be solved. It occurred the demonstration. However, it’s not just the demonstration. It’s the way they try to make their lives better after they shared the idea for the problem through journalism.

Abolition and Occupy Wall st

     Occupy Wall Street has been for a month in New York City, it was started with 80 protesters, a small scale, however, since an attack on people who didn’t actually participate in the demonstration around financial district with pepper sprays, the number of protesters has increased over 1,500 people and this event has spread out exceedingly fast all around the world.

     Likewise, journalism disseminates to the public when something special happens, in this time, journalism has an important role in the process of an event. It not only informs people what’s exactly going on, but it also makes people form the public by appealing to the public in the form of emotional journalism. In other words, it becomes one of the forms of the demonstration for the public. With this process, lots of protesters who have been through hard times all around the world occupied their financial districts to appeal their financial difficulties, just like The Moving Abolition onto the National Agenda, in the story.

     In contrast to the story, Occupy Wall Street is a modernistic demonstration. Even though there was the brutal attack on the people, the protesters at least had basic rights of human being, which they could occupy the street and exclaim what they wanted as citizens. On the other hand, people in the eighteenth and nineteenth were so oppressed to appeal to the public and also had no rights to do something they wanted as citizens. But they tried to occur revolution. As the result of their attempt, it brought on a lot of people’s death and damages in the country as we read the story.

     We never know how more it’s going to be revolutionary, however it’s sure the journalistic power is going to be stronger and the number of protesters is increasing more and more all over the world.

The concert of Latino heritage

     The Nuyorican School Poetry Jazz Ensemble stated a little later than the schedule because of the delay of a prior performance. After he introduced all the members of the band to the audience the leader, Americo Casiano JR. started the performance with poets, he was using metaphor and simile a lot as if he was a story teller.

    

      At the beginning of the performance, I was so impressed by a strange music instrument that looked like a traditional music instrument of somewhere. It looked like nothing but sounded by shaking and tapping at the bottom of it with singing “mamabuela”. There was especially beautiful harmonious sound between the drum and a keyboard, soft melody from the keyboard played by Edy Martinez, lively melody played by Gene Golden plus, beautiful sound from the bass and clarinet, played by Ray Martinez and Dave Valentin. Even though a lot of the audiences were required to come to the little theater by their professors, they did look like enjoying the live jazz music. One of the audiences, Emma Jean, who majoring in accounting, said “ It was even better than I expected, I felt like I was in the jazz bar in somewhere Manhattan”.  The band first expressed what they want to represent by reciting the poets like the narrative of the beginning of music and then they represented it through the harmonious music they played.

    

     There was no enough publicity about the concert. Before I came here, I had no idea and didn’t expected it was beautiful like this, because I thought it would be typical Latino music just like we listened anywhere on the street. It needs enough publicity around school.