It was not until reading various people’s comments on the blog that I realized that there was a great deal of connection between what Brooke Gladstone said during our class last week, and what was driving the murder mystery in Thin Blue Line. That connection is the whole “he said/she said” argument and relates to how Brooke talked about the inaccuracy of media and reporting. A story can change, and there is always the issue of the reporter/observer’s bias or preconceived set of notions that cloud the “objective” report of what’s happening. This was evident in the Thin Blue Line, especially with how the female police officer’s story kept changing drastically about what went down the night that her partner was shot. I loved when Brooke read a bunch of news articles and showed tweets with pictures that were completely falsified information, because just like she said in class, a lot of the information and news I get is from my friends sharing articles or posts on social media. The fact that a lot of the articles and “news” we see is because of a computer program that knows what we might be interested in is just completely terrifying! Brooke was right when she said to put down our phones and our computers sometimes and after doing so in just one week, I already could feel more of a mental relief from a constant bombardment of notifications and news (mostly negative).
