Societal Tolerance Essay On News Anchor

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Erica Nichols Hum/176 Societal tolerance essay 10/9/2012 Recently a story made national news for a controversial issues that involved a news anchor and a viewer, the viewer wrote this anchor a letter explaining that he did not feel it was proper for her to be on air because she was a bad example to kids especially you girls, he stated the reason was because she was overweight and that made the children think it was ok to be unhealthy and want to eat bad and look like her. He included a few names in the letter that he called this anchor, including fat. The letter the viewer sent in was worded in a way that made it sound nice, yet it was rude no matter how it was worded. The anchor used this opportunity to send a message to her viewers…show more content…
While thinking of how this outcome came about I can see it in a couple different ways, for one I think the outcome was a good one, each person got to say what they needed and were able to resolve it and both have seemed to have let it go and are not going about their own lives, but on the other hand I think this is something that could have been handled it private. This person sent in an e-mail to the anchor, not for the public eye but only for the reporter herself to see. She used her freedom of speech to go on air and send a response to him, now her pushing her freedom of speech on air now puts him in the public eye and may make him the subject of bullying, the same thing that she said in her response that she was against. So I think this could have been done in a private manner and handled between just the two of them, they could have found a way to resolve this matter without having to call the other one out in front of an entire audience of people possibly making him the subject of bullying in the future. What I think should have happened would be for her to privately E-mail him voicing her concerns with his letter to her and explaining how and why it upset her. This would have avoided the public

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