Media transparency

Out of all the Humanists discussed in class, Thomas More provides the best insights into the human condition. First of all, in More’s important book, Utopia, he wrote about his ideal and imaginary nation that he wished the world could reflect. In this Utopian society, people share everything, have abundance, work and eat as a community, and lead ordered, regulated lives. More wished that everyone could be equal, and described that in his Utopia “nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for…

What makes an average judge decide to turn corrupt? How many courtrooms follow corrupt practices? What can the impact be when judges lack a sense of public duty? It may be difficult to find the answers to questions that provoke so much guilt, but finding them means relief. Relief for Americans who do not trust rulings and need help to understand them, or receive another hearing. The grandest moment in recent corruption history for the United States government dates back to the 1960’s when…

Bribery and corruption is an issue that is very happening in most of the countries. What is bribery and corruption? Bribery is a practice of offering something to gain certain advantage, for example: money, assets, gift and so on and so forth, and corruption is when an individual itself abuse its power to gain an undue advantage. Bribery is an unethical behavior and it is also very unfair practice, for example: the employer pay people for their normal job is called wage, and when the employee…

Judicial corruption in the eyes of its innocent victims, is wrongdoing by someone in power that can be life changing. People can be fined unfair fees or watch someone who stole from them go free. However, for the judges getting the extra cash or making a decision because of personal bias, a case in which corruption occurs can be part of a normal day, and no one would ever know. Corruption is much more oblivious in other countries around the world. For example, in Azerbaijan, a prisoner can be…

bribes can validate an efficient allocation function, corruption should have been legalised. Another way to differentiate the form of corruption is by focusing on their scales: petty corruption, grand corruption and systemic corruption according to Transparency International, (2016). Petty corruption occurs at a small scale of money transaction when citizens…

There is no question that, throughout the history of China, there exists a trend of corruption which never quite seems to vanish, no matter what the Chairman at the time has tried in terms of combatting it. The issue came into primary focus in 1989 with anti-government demonstrations that forced the leadership to wage war against corruption, for fear of losing legitimacy as a party. And yet, corruption has not significantly decreased. With Xi Jinping’s announcement in 2012 that he would be…

Bad Things Happen to Good People “The Discussion of Earth is Cruel” In the article written by Leonard Pitts called Sometimes the Earth is Cruel, he explains how the earth can be cruel to people that don’t have the privileges that some people who have money. In this article Leonard explains all the tragic things that has happened to the little town of Haiti. The thing that makes these people less privileged is that they are very poor and they have a history for having political instability.…

which Franzen points out that “if you dedicate your existence to being likable, however, and if you adopt whatever cool persona is necessary to make it happen, it suggests that you’ve despaired of being loved for who you really are” (145). The use of media platforms to broadcast daily occurrences has painted Internet users as movie stars and celebrities in their own minds, taking pictures of nearly everything and creating a page of their greatest accomplishments. However, the connection between…

loyalty towards the people and an obligation to the truth without invading privacy, promoting prejudice, bias views, negative stereotypes, distrust and unnecessary social unrest. Journalism and the other forms of dissemination of information by the media are one of the four estates which can change society by being used as a powerful driving force to sway public opinions. It provides people with the knowledge and perspectives needed for them to make more informed decisions which will ultimately…

Gerard Jones is an American author and a comic book writer about media. Jones argued in his essay “Violent Media Is Good for Kids” to discuss several good reasons that violent media is beneficial to kids. In Jones’s essay, he talked about many good reasons that led me to be certain of his reasons why violent media are helpful to kids. Jones believes violent media assistances children to be more courageous to face their obstacles. Jones gave a very good example of his son, who was not able to…