Week 8

During this week learning, Miss Syida had asked us to make 10 elements on the next reading. We also had been divided to certain group to make the task more easily done. Therefore, when doing the job in a group, the task is managing well. It can be said that the article is quite confusing to understand. In addition, we had been exposed to the new chapter of our study which is ‘Invasion of the Baby Snatcher’, which is the article from the Time Magazine date August 2006 and written by Walter Kirn. At first, when I first look through the title, what’s came in my mind is about the abduction of children and also toddlers. However, my expectation quite differs from the true meaning of the article itself. I totally misunderstood about the message that tries to deliver by the writer. It is actually about the role of mass media to overcome the problem of children abduction. On the other hand, the media seem interested on the issue of child abduction and always find news on the issue. It can be seen through the statement by the writer which is “What, no kidnapped kids today? Well, find some!
By this statement, it showed the eagerness of the people in media field to have kidnapped cases, as they believe it will increase the rating of their company. There is other thing that needs to consider by those in media rather than to make stories of kidnapping where no solution is provided. They should focus on more important issue like children that is abused by their parents and also or abandoned by their own parents. This should be the main focus of the media, rather than used hot stuff stories, as the way to increase their rating. Overall, the writer condemned the media people because the media seems facing the problem of having the issue of double standard in reporting news.