Last Thursday, there was a shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, OR and a gunman opened fired leaving 9 people dead and 7 others wounded before he shot and killed himself. One student at the college began live tweeting that there was somebody shooting on campus. Right away reporters and TV producers from different news casts started to request interviews from the girl and she described the requests as "Absolute Human Vultures".
The author of this article is arguing that the reporters going out of their way just to get information about a story. Jason Silverstein, a breaking news reporter for the New York Daily says that "It's our job. And it's a job that needs to be done regardless of some tweets calling you a scumbag." What Silverstein is saying is that reporters have to get information somehow to do their job, even if it gets in people's business a lot of the time. This article has many strengths including how they used many sources opinions to get both sides of what it takes to get information and if they are getting in the way. Weaknesses would be transitions and words that start each paragraph like in the beginning the article said "So it was Thursday". They should just leave the word so out. Overall it was a good story to read about.
There could be a whole lot of ways to reword a lot of the article but the author did support the main argument and didn't get sidetracked a whole lot. The evidence isn't totally convincing but it made you think both ways and not just one side. The writer did a very good job of getting a point across without expressing their opinion, but what I didn't understand was when someone tweeted "sickening" I don't know who they are talking about at that point.
In conclusion, the article was a sad story but it was very informational in the long run.
Article Source: Vultures' or reporters?
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