I find it really sad that people such as Michael Savage and Don Imus have gotten and are getting so much publicity in a nation being ruled by the media. Like what, they think they are so much better than everyone else that it is okay for them to ignore the concept of being ethical? As a human being it should be their duty to live by good values and I know if any other average person made comments anywhere resembling Don Imus’ commenting on the Rutger’s women’s basketball team, they would be considered naive and ignorant, and probably be punched in the face. So what makes it okay for him to make comments like that? And what is even more appalling is how NBC had to wait until they started losing money to take him off of the air. It is very disturbing how ethics play such a teeny tiny role in the world of journalism and the media. In some ways the media has come so far, for example, in Gender Psych we studied the ways in which the media has started moving away from gender biases and stereotypes. So in some ways the media has gotten better, but in other ways, such as Savage and Imus, it just seems like we’re getting careless in what we make public. Again, people are definitely entitled to their own opinions but making extreme opinions, maybe whether based off of fact or ignorance or both, is rude and offensive to many people and should not be made public for the sake of ethics.
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