60 Minutes Reaction

Steven Schwarz

English 102

2/28/2012

60 Minutes Reaction.

After watching the video in class I realized that without every single point of view you lose total credibility.  A one sided argument is a bad argument.  Audiences will respond more positively to one side or another when presented with all of the facts.  I found the video in class to be an ignorant response to what really happened.  They were so caught up in making the accused look guilty that they never bothered to consider if they were innocent.  I noticed the majority of the interviewees were women.  You can disagree or agree with me on this, but it isn’t that hard to get a group of women to side with a girl who claimed she was raped.  The preconceived notion would be that if anyone was raped that night it was her and not the other way around, simply because she is a woman.  If one of the basketball players had claimed they were raped, people would simply disregard it.  There is some truth to that no matter how small.  If I want to apply what I learned from this to my own research, I’d better get all sides of the story.  The Bachelor has a lot of people involved in just the production alone.  There are viewers as well as contestants.  I’ve found that the majority of my annotations are about the viewers’ own responses, interviews of the former bachelorettes from the show, and the bachelor himself.  To further explore every aspect of the story it would be best for me to discover what Chris Hansen himself has to say about the matter.  He is the host and is there through all of it.  In bulk, he’s the most important piece of the puzzle.  He is my greatest source for truth. 

            My work so far is actually pretty good.  I’ve covered almost all the sources I can get information from.  I’ve considered the good and the bad effects the show has on its viewers over the years, and I can come to a reasonable argument from both sides.  Gaining knowledge from a working psychologist could also be of great help as well.  With all of the information I have to offer, none of it would be worth anything without someone who is trained to analyze social situations such as this.  They can give the most clear and thought out interpretation of what it all means, thus giving me another source.