Group 2C
Sarah Myers, Ryan Powell, Carley Bartlett, Antoniya Petkova, Jordan Muckley, Bashir Yusuf and Katherine Tysoe.
One thing that we left unfinished last week was a part of our group research for our "I hate the whole Jordan/Pete saga... Do you?" idea. We set up a Facebook group to expand on our task, but it proved to be very unhelpful. We only had 25 members and they were basically our friends who joined just because they were invited (I have friends who joined, but have never heard the story), even though we explicitly asked them to join only if they also hate the whole hassle.
However, a few people actually wrote their ages and opinions, they were mostly students - I guess someone else's friends, who actually were aware of what was going on, and I would like to quote one Dee Elharith, 21, a student from Leeds:
"Am not taking sides, although the media did take Peters side in most cases and Jordan has been presented as a vile woman as far as I'm aware. And I hate it cos it's their own personal life, we have nothing to do with their divorce, and if they were celebrities I was actually interested in it might have been a bit of a gossip and something interesting... Read More, but I don't care about either Jordan or Peter, so this whole over publicising it got on my nerves."
This oversteps a little the point we were trying to make in our group discussion - that the media coverage of the story is actually the bigger issue, rather than the divorce itself. Media manipulates the story, showing different sides of both Katie and Pete, controlling our opinion and our interest. And as long as there is coverage from the media, there will be a story to cover.Labels: tasks |
