LINKING READINGS ONE AND TWO

Imagine you are Barbara Jewell. Complete the following letter to the Atlanta Journal, the newspaper that first named your son as a suspect in the Olympic bombing. In the letter, say that you are angry that your son was named as a suspect and explain how your lives have changed because of it. Address the issue of a person’s right privacy. Use Rosa Lopez and Oliver Sipple from Reading One as examples of others whose lives the media has damaged.
To the Editor:
Sensationalist reporting is harmful to all people involved and has no place in our society.
Sensationalist reporting effects in entire Oliver Sipple’s daily life.
First, despite of the fact, that Oliver Sipple has never been arrested or charged, staying at home, he feels as a prisoner. Another, he doesn’t want to go for visit to whatever happen on his relatives or friends (either for good or bad). Also, he knows that, all the opinion around him effects dramatically to himself. Finally, all the time he feels with wounded heart.
About Rosa Lopez, it is the same situation. She is associated by photographers and reporters, who taking their peace. Whatever they go the photographers and reporters are present. This state for both is a nightmare indeed and they feel like wounded heart also, they are angry.
As a result of the media’s tolerance for irresponsible reporting, my family and I are a few more victims of sensationalism at its worst. On behalf of all victims of sensationalism, we demand a formal apology.