After reading this article, I was shocked by the actions taken by the police officers that resulted in the death of Robert Dziekanski. Although this article does not explain what happened to make them take such action, I can not imagine a reason strong enough for them to shock him repeatedly with a Taser. If these Tasers can be so potentially harmful, they should be further investigated to decide if this item is actually needed in the police forces. However, although the new video showing footage of the event is a strong piece of evidence, members of the public should refrain from passing judgement and getting too worked up before further investigation is put into the situation. As we learned in Christopher Dornan's Printed Matter, newspapers and the media can very easily write their papers with a certain slant, manipulating the view of the reader. We should be critical of articles like these, and make sure we are informed before we make a final decision.To read more about this incident, click here:
My advice to Jeff Zucker ? Stop acting like a whining child because you’re embarrassing yourself and your company. NBC clearly knew what they were signing on to when they registered with Apple’s iTunes, so why is he complaining? The article states that Steve Jobs of Apple “refused to budge on the fixed-pricing model for iTunes shows”, but if NBC was not happy with this pricing they never should have signed on. If they didn’t make as much money as they were hoping it’s no one’s fault but their own. Telling any one company they “killed the music industry” is a vast overstatement, as one company alone will never be capable of doing this. If anything, the huge success of iTunes has only demonstrated our society’s love of music and willingness to pay for it, rather than simply download it. Jeff Zucker is falling prey to the common perceptual tendency of how “we judge ourselves more charitably than we judge others,” which is clearly evident with his warped perception of the situation. We all do it, just most of us don’t get nationally quoted in Variety magazine.
The decrease in percentage of married people and significant "less than half of adults are married" mark is certainly an indication of changing times, something that Barbara Kay does not seem to remotely grasp. She states that we are “drying up as a society based on these statistics.” We fortunately do not live in a Stepford Wife society where a woman’s only place is in the home, but in a society that has come to value higher education and learning for both men and women. Yet, when asked how young women are supposed to support themselves “if they give up their career to have a baby so young,” Kay responds, “their husbands should be supporting them.” She goes on to state that “true happiness is taking responsibility... [and] starting your own family...that is something that young people...don’t seem to grasp.” Who is she to say what true happiness is? Though raising a family might be it for some people, what about education, careers, the single life? She is completely ignorant in saying “By not wanting to have more children, by concentrating on the privileges and pleasure of one’s own adult life and choices, one isn’t really thinking about the future at all, only the present.” This has in reality become the exact opposite in today’s world, where overpopulation and dwindling resources are primary problems. A recent article from the Globe and Mail (April 21, 2007) stressed the importance of this point, and was printed with the attention grabbing headline “Don’t Have Children, Save the World.” Kay is clearly a “selective listener” to topics such as these, choosing to live in an old fashioned world and blocking out the new standards our society has come to ideal. 