By LINDSAY THOMPSON<\/p>\n
By now, most people have heard about the case of missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham. Around 1 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 13, she texted friends saying she was lost. That was the last anyone has heard from her since that day.<\/p>\n
Police are still trying to figure out exactly what happened to Hannah and where she is. In just the past few days, they have found a person of interest\u00a0who is currently\u00a0in custody.<\/p>\n
All of that information can be found by just Googling Hannah\u2019s name. What you will also find when you search for her are articles with titles like, \u201cMissing student Hannah Graham was so drunk she could barely walk, says owner of bar where she was last seen \u2013 as man accused of her kidnap appears in court\u201d (http:\/\/dailym.ai\/1sRprF8<\/a>).<\/p>\n A journalist\u2019s job is to report the news in an unbiased way and giving articles titles such as the one previously listed is anything but unbiased. That title almost shifts the blame onto Hannah. It makes it easier to think \u201cWell, it\u2019s her fault for not being more careful,\u201d when that\u2019s just not the case.<\/p>\n People can come to their own assumptions about her life, but that is not the job of the media. Hannah very well may have been extremely drunk, and there is nothing wrong with articles stating that she had been out that night (because that\u2019s the truth and is part of the story).<\/p>\n However, making that the whole subject of the article\u00a0detracts from the fact that she is still missing, and they may have found the man who kidnapped her \u2013 which is really what\u2019s important.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not the news media\u2019s job to judge her life choices. It\u2019s their job to clearly report what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By LINDSAY THOMPSON By now, most people have heard about the case of missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham. Around 1 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 13, she texted friends saying she was lost. That was the last anyone has … Continue reading