Emily Journalism120

Considering all that was posted with the picture, I do not think that they made it very believable to people who would be in the least bit skeptical of online sources. Seeing this on Facebook may make a few people believe because of quick glances and the sentence with it being semi-reasonable or not too far-fetched. This flower does look different than the usual flower but there are many things that have altered their looks a bit from minor factors. Only giving a brief explanation of it makes it have very weak information because it states what possibly happened but they did not explain how or any parts of the story with it. If I was interested in finding out whether this article was true or fake news, I would research it and look at a few sites to see what their opinion is. What I found is that this is something that can happen naturally to this flower and was not the result of a large nuclear disaster. The videos I found most interesting would be the ones titled "Fake...

The whistleblower I chose was Aaron Swartz. Aaron was a very skilled internet pioneer that created the site Reddit and hacked into JSTOR. He was able to download over 4 million articles but was arrested and subjected to over 1 million dollars in fines in 2011. Unlike many other hackers, Swartz did not leak government files, he released to the public articles that were already available to subscribers. My opinion on this specific case is that it seems really strange that he would release information that was already available to people if they paid for a subscription. It makes it seem like he just enjoyed to hack things and did not do it for the public's sake. He had no consideration for journalists. This can relate to the journalism world because this hacker affected the work of all the journalists on that site. Now that all the information was leaked, there would be not use in people paying for a subscription. It seems to be hard for journalists to get money for their work so this...