Actually Knowing Versus Thinking You Know

The past couple of weeks I have been hearing all about the Trayvon Martin case but due especially from the news online as well as on the television. I initially found out about this case through Facebook as sadly as that sounds but his name along with rest in peace and best wishes to his family were hard to ignore when put all across the internet. I just like most people who chose not to educate themselves on the case. I found the article regarding the subject from the New York Times.

It talks about how a volunteer for civil crime watch was the one who shot the teenager. Initially I thought it was a cop just from the hear say as well as the internet sources that I had read up about. This just shows how sometimes social networking can most definitely provide the wrong information. It changes how I feel about the subject completely. How can a civil watch volunteer have the right to hold a weapon and be expected to follow the "hold your ground law" to the fullest.This also goes along with how we spoke in class last week about how news channels will focus more sometimes on being the first ones to report the story instead of making sure they are reporting the actual truth of the events.




As for how the author writes up the article, he provides a sort of bias by saying how this story has riled up and caused the African-American community to come together in showing the possible of "obvious" discrimination in this story. The author does this by even providing a quote from president Obama that says how if he had a son it would of looked like Trayvon Martin. This automatically shows his side on the matter and to instill the leader of our nation's viewpoint on the matter can cause a group to rally behind a statement of that magnitude. The story doesn't give much information about the man who shot Trayvon Martin. His name was George Zimmerman but his story or side was left unheard of.