Media Critique

After the Zimmerman Trial

There is an article written by CNN explaining the George Zimmerman trial. Even though this is a decent article it is missing one thing. That independence and fairness. This article has only one side of the story. The side that believed that Zimmerman was innocent. In this article the author quotes the people that were on the side that believed that Zimmerman was guilty. 

   This article failed to meet the principle that says that journalists must be independent in their writing. This person got the side that believes that Zimmerman deserves to be in jail. Even if this was true and Zimmerman was guilty it was not proven so the journalist should not try to hide his opinions about the trial in his writing. The author quoted Zimmermans brother but that is not good enough. The writer should have quoted people that didn't know Zimmerman and believed he was innocent. The Jurors, for example, would have been great sources. They believed he was innocent so the journalist should have quoted them and gotten their point of view. 

    A yardstick they did not meet is fairness which is about the same as independence. The writer should have gotten more of Zimmermans side. To make this article more nuteral he could have shown Zimmermans side. He should have talked more about Zimmermans struggles and how this trial changed his whole life.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/13/justice/zimmerman-trial

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