The Power Of Media

Since technology is evolving everyday so is the ability to live someone’s life through what is portrayed with the use of video cameras. The power is now in the hands of anyone who is technology savvy, to create the news. Sometimes on the news they show clips of the event at hand from the view of an observer’s cell phone. News nowadays happens by chance—right place at the right time. Celebrities have it the worst because their lives are made public domain on a daily basis. Since news stations, TMZ, and Youtube accept anything people go to the extreme sometimes to get the hottest and newest news. People’s privacy is now null and void in some cases. People with cameras will try to capture celebrities every move and this for them has to suck. It is nice that people want to get involved with the news and keeping us informed. Their needs to be a line drawn on the actual footage that is accepted that makes it to the mainstream. If someone’s privacy is invaded the footage should be discarded. Everyone is not a reporter and this creates room for lawsuits. Since technology is so evolved people can alter the footage making things appear real that are not. This sometimes can cause people their careers and this is why everyone is not a reporter. The government needs to do something about the right of free press because this can cause defamation of character. They need to amend the amendment because invading privacy for free press should be unconstitutional