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.