Diagnostic Essay: Monica Lewinsky’s Price of Shame How much are you willing to pay for the price of shame to go away? Monica Lewinsky gave a TED Talk in March 2015 titled The Price of shame, in her speech she talks about her Internet Scandal 17 years ago on having an affair with the President of the United States and how being public shamed had affected her. She goes on about the increase in public shaming in the present day, and how it is now a blood sport, that the world needs an intervention on the internet in our culture. I agree with Lewinsky primary argument because we don’t need to put people down based on mistakes they have made, we are humans they are things we can’t control, we need more compassion and empathy for the mistakes …show more content…
Using gossip websites or social media to catch the attention of the reader to make money advertising. “ How is the Money made? Clicks. The more shame, the more clicks, the more advertising dollars” (Lewinsky). The more clicks people make on to stories of public shaming the more people become numb to the human behind the story. Our culture has accepted public shaming, the behavior of cyberbullying, trolling and hacking make us not consider the life’s they are affecting. As we see the stories of people being publicly shamed or bullied someone is making money off their suffering. Having compassion for the people behind the stories will lead to less suicide …show more content…
We need an intervention in our culture and our internet to stop making public shaming into a blood sport. I agree with Lewinsky primary agreement because we shouldn’t be bashed people or use their secrets against them. We are all humans, we all make mistakes we need to go back to the basics where compassion and forgiveness was the key, not daily reminder of humiliation of the mistake you’ve made “Have compassion for yourself. We all deserve compassion, and to live both online and off in a more compassionate world.”
Merry had access to a client’s confidentially information. We do not know how Merry is going to use the information learned about the prominent public figure. The information Merry had access to can be damaging to the client public image. This affects the well-being of the client. The therapist’s inability to maintain confidentiality affects the beneficence of the client.
There are so many unanswered questions left-over from this scandal that it really makes it hard to say that it was resolved and even harder to decide whether or not it was resolved in a positive or negative manner. This is also not to say that there weren’t ways in which the crisis was resolved in positive ways. The more positive ways that this predicament was resolved in are still able to be seen today as after all of this happened Congress passed various laws in regards to government ethics, campaign financing, and freedom of information. Although there were many, many
Ashley Ross with TIME, also reveals from the Vanity Fair article that Monica Lewinsky never wants to be “celebrated” for the scandal, because she has “regrets”, although she thought she was being “pretty discreet, but too immature and didn’t have the foresight to see what the possible ramifications of this could be.” (2014). Monica Lewinsky should be commended for coming back into the public eye, because although she was a young intern during the time of the scandal, her recent presence demonstrates that she’s human and it’s ok to make mistakes and move on. With all of the social media humiliation in society, there are an abundance of young girls and women who are caught in the web of internet embarrassment. Monica Lewinsky’s story could be one of encouragement, and her strength to persevere proves Monica to be a wonderful ambassador for troubled
The title is designed to evoke an emotional response from the viewer. It is common knowledge that when David Vitter was a US senator, he was embroiled with the “D.C. Madame Scandal.” Vitter never admitted the extent of his involvement, saying only that he had sinned. Now, 15 years later, candidate John bell Edwards dredges up Vitter’s old scandal. Edwards makes this scandal worse by balancing Vitter’s patriotism against his
I chose to write about the San Antonio sexual scandal committed by Staff Sergeant Luis Walker in 2011. I decided to write about this one because this one stood out to me the most, it hit and connected some emotions of mine and my opinion on this particular case is very strong. Staff Sgt. Walker sexually assaulted Ms. Messick in 2011 in training, but she did not report it until later after she left the air force because she was scared of what would happen to her if she reported it sooner. Once she notified the proper people at Lackland air force there were nine other females that came forward about their cases also.
As proven by Nigel Jaquiss, muckraking is still out there in the world. Muckraking does still exist in 2016 in newspapers as demonstrated by Nigel Jaquiss’s three-part Willamette Week expose titled, “The 30 year secret; A crime, a cover up, and the way it shaped Oregon.” “On May 6, he confessed” (Jaquiss) This article helped prove that Neil Goldschmidt raped a 14 year old girl for three years, and covered up the crime. This article also showed the long term effects of sexual assault, by showing how terrible the girl’s life way following the assault (Jaquiss).
In The New York Times’ article “In Small Towns, Gossip Moves to the Web, and Turns Vicious,” author A.G. Sulzberger follows a series of rumors and their effects on a small town in Missouri. This small town gained late access to social media, and has therefore been seeing a shift in the way that gossip is spread. Specifically, the author focuses on how Topix -- an online news forum-- has negatively impacted the rural community and their overall perception of their neighbors. This discourse contains an overall ideology that contains the beliefs that small towns are full of gossip, and that social media is a negative influence aiding these rumors. Through critical analysis of diction, quotes, and images present in the text, one can see the overall
With the image looming, public relations had to work desperately to attempt to manage the information shared about the scandal outside of what was public information. According to Kelley (2014), most universities public reputations are determined by the perspectives of those outside looking. Considering those are the people who donate and attend Penn State, their perspective of their reputation during and after the Sandusky scandal determined whether they would continue to attend and support the university’s academics. While there is no record of a drop in solely academic enrollment and with the football program at a standstill, there was still necessary coverage and specific navigation of information to be shared concerning Penn States stance in the
This effect manifests itself from debauchery to blood doping; from Ponzi schemes to molestation; and when these ruthless acts disregard integrity, all of us are impacted—not merely Bill Clinton and Barry
Complication arise for all of us and all of us make mistakes that we later regret. Edward Kennedy made some wrong choices after the Chappaquiddick complication. Edward later tried to clear up the incident and tell his side of the story by delivering the Chappaquiddick speech on national television. The speech was given at his home just hours after taking a guilty plea. When we make mistakes it can be very difficult to clear the air but it is possible using the right approach.
During and ending this time period Parsons establishes the beginning of modern politics. Candidates began publicly exposing the transgressions of each other’s personal professional lives. These disclosures were very ugly, as have occurred in 2017. Sexual affairs, debt, families, wives, numerous wives, slaveholder, etc. have been drawn into political voting procedures.
When our tragic heroes experience the embarrassment of their deeds, and realize their mistake at the same time, their attitude changes from confident to a more restrictive nature. When questioned about the truth during an interview done by the Associated Press for Bill Cosby’s family’s art exhibit at the Smithsonian, Cosby avoided the question and prevents the interviewer from asking any further questions. Cosby was caught off guard when he was questioned about the scandal,“There’s no response... There is no comment about that. And I’ll tell you why.
In 2013, a 12-year-old girl ended her life by jumping off of a factory after being bullied on social media for months. She was threatened with words such as “if you haven’t killed yourself yet, would you please just die,” and she had searched on the internet “how many Advil do you need to take to die.” It is at times like this that the government should monitor the conversation on social media or even personal account. When government detects an individual searching for ways of suicides through search engine, it should pay a closer attention to his/her online behavior and reach out to organizations that are capable to help him/her when sensing the urgency of actions. With government’s intervention in people’s daily speech, one might not be cyberbullied and a suicide might thus be
Social media sites are accessible to anyone to write threatening posts that affects everyone, especially the person the post is targeted at, in the online communities. There have been 4,400 cases of individuals that have committed suicide because of horrible usage of social media use (Russel, 2017). Within these amounts of cases, government action is still not enough when it comes to handing out punishments to cyberbullies or protection to the victims who face these taunting threats