The recent story of Alexandra Wallace, a political science major from UCLA who published a video on youtube to explain she expects Asian student to adopt “American manners”, was covered by all mainstream media (The Washington Post, MSNBC…). What is surprising is that all of them, except for the New York Times, did not use that story to talk about the danger of the digital footprint people can leave on the internet. Instead, they focused on the fact that she was not expelled from school, because she was protected by the first amendment, and on racism toward Asian American.
I think this story is a perfect illustration of how the old media react to what happens in the new media such as youtube: they do not really know what to do with those news and what the issues can be so everything that happens online is linked to the right of expression. They do not even know where to classify them: that story can be found in the US section of the New York Times and in the the business section of the Washington Post and MSNBC.
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