May 6, 2021 Reflection

 In today's class we learned about the AP (Associated Press ). I thought that it was deceiving that although there is no "Kisha Club" sort of organization, but a invisible separation created in the AP.  For the treatment towards women in the 1950s I thought it was strange that they only let one person in into the room. I would of understood if it was only for the first year, as it was a new situation and they didn't how it would end up, but from the second and third year, I thought that they should have been more women in the room. Mr. Paterson also showed us how even today, the number of female reporters in the Press Room is less than half and that men were mainly the one's asking the questions. The second topic we talked about is how the companies how make weapons and owns news companies wants people who are agreeing with going to the war talking in the news and how that affects how the citizens think. This was the first time I had heard of such thing and I thought that it should not be allowed for large companies to be able to manipulate the news that go out to the public. On the other hand, I think that there are small things that citizens like us can do to boycott these kinds of companies. I think that we should support more smaller and true companies who feed the people real information and not support these big companies who change what we should and should not know. But the problem with that is that the smaller companies don't have access to the tools and opportunities that large companies have, so I think that we need to take in news from outside of that country. This would allow for a different perspective on things that one company can not achieve. 

Notes: 

In America there is no Kish Club but, the Press Room acted like the Kisha Club and only the top reporters were allowed to come to the press room
1950 no women were allowed in the room
until JFK allowed one woman to come
They allowed her to sit in the front and ask questions
The presidents after that followed that until George Bush
Young Bush forced the women to go to the back and not allowed to ask questions
One man was asking really easy questions
He was not a reporter and was a male prostitute and was only allowed by bush's chief of press

Game show person was fired because the person who owned the game show also made weapons for the war
The game show host brought people from pro and anti war and NBC didn't like that
Feb 13/14 2003 was the day with the largest protest to stop the war
London 2 mil
Rome 3 mil
NY 1 mil
Berlin 2 mil
Milan 3 m
Tokyo 20k
80 mil in total protesting anti war
Silvio Berlusconi was an Italian rich guy