The article that I chose for this blog post was about a Fox
Cable Networks Group top executive that was fired for using her company email
account to set up a fundraiser for the family of a passenger on the plane from
Malaysia that disappeared. The executive
herself was quoted in the article and the same story was posted on the ABC news
website and the Associated Press. The
article was well written and did not condemn the company for terminating the
executive. It stated simple facts of
what happened and the consequences that followed.
With mass media giving the ability to anyone with intent to post
anything they wish, this story has the potential to be twisted to put blame on
either party in this matter. Someone could
feel strongly that the company was insensitive to the intent of the executive
and therefore post a story with the intent of ruining the company’s reputation
and painting the executive as a victim.
The company could also be painted as the victim for having to enforce
the consequences for misuse of the company email regardless of the how noble
the effort was. Unrestricted web
publishing allows for different versions of the truth to be published with no
worry of the consequences and that is why as the audience we have to take
responsibility for what we believe as truth and what we don’t.
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