Darian Journalism 120

  When looking at the photograph of the daises, my initial reactions were shock, disbelief, and curiousity.  After reading the article, not knowing much information I, probably like many others, believed that the flowers were deformed due to the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. However, with the little information that was linked with the picture, it did not have strong enough evidence for me to believe that.  There could be a million different explanations as to why the flowers have that deformity.  Besides the actual picture of the daises (which could be any natural deformities possible) there is no reliable evidence that proves to a reader that this was caused by the Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. Personally, this just seems like an unreliable source to. Try and gather information from. After searching I came to find out that scientists suspect it is a natural flower deformity, and that this is fake news.   After watching the videos on “Fake o

The whistleblowing case I chose to investigate is on a former military analyst Daniel Ellsberg.  Daniel Ellsberg leaked a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S government rationale during the Vietnam war.  Soon after this was leaked the New York Times, The Washington Post, and other American newspapers published the Pentagon Papers.   My personal opinion on this certain whistleblowing case is that it was a big deal to leak something about war projects, however, I believe that Daniel Ellsberg was trying to protect his country by leaking this important secret.  The public needs to be aware of the government and their choices when it affects the worlds lives.  During a 1998 interview , Ellsberg said, “The public is lied to every day by the President, by his spokespeople, by his officers. If you can't handle the thought that the President lies to the public for all kinds of reasons, you couldn't stay in the government at that level.”  I truly think that Ellsberg had good intentions