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VOL. 1 ISSUE 1 DECEMBER 2012

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Trayvon Martin

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Media Today V.S. Media YesterdayTrayvon Martin life

CreditsTrayvon Martin Case

Trayvon Martin &The Media Movement

Simple Facts

Opinion page

The media now is much scarier com-pared to the 60’s-Larry East Orange, NJ

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Media Today V.s. Media Yesterday

Tech-nology con-stantly chang-es; ev-eryday ad-vance-

ments in technology are being developed. From the way we communicate to the way we re-ceive information has since be-come much easier to obtain than it was 50 years ago. The world is not as isolated as it once was. Thanks to technology we can communicate with one another from hundreds of thousands of miles always without every even getting out of bed. Technology has even made varies information obtainable with just a simply click of a mouse. Take the News for ex-ample, 50 years ago individual all over the world would have to…. These days we obtain the News in countless way and on many de-vices; whether it’s a television set, a mobile phone, on even an Ipad.

Getting the News Today has be-come far easier vs. 50 years ago.

Media today is more social compared to the passive media 50 years ago. Today the world is inviting you to voice your op-tions through social networks such as: Facebook, Twitter, or even MySpace. One huge example of this is reality TV shows like, Ameri-can Idol; where the views at home are asked to text who they believe should win the competition. At the end of the competition the views votes are tallied up and the contested with the most votes is the winner. This engages audienc-es to participate and also allows them to feel as if they are a part of the show. People in Today’s world urge to be a part of something; we visit sites like Facebook to let our voices be heard and connect or reconnect with people all over the world and it’s all because of Technology. By: Anika Knight

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Trayvon Martin: A Life Unlived

Trayvon Martin was born Trayvon Benjamin Martin on February 5, 1995 to parents Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin. Trayvon was a seventeen year old high school junior who lived with mother, Sybrina and older brother, Jahvaris in Miami Gardens, Florida. Trayvon Martin, ones an ordinary teenager soon became, not only the headline of every news media cover-age throughout the country; but a national movement. On February 26, 2012 while returning to his father’s fiancée home after visiting a local convenience store in Sanford, Florida, Trayvon was shot and killed. Trayvon’s murderer was a man named George Zimmerman, a man who quickly be-came one of the nations’ most hated.

Trayvon Martin was a teenager who had his whole life ahead of him. He was a loving son and a devoted foot-ball player. It saddens me to know that Trayvon will never have the opportu-nity to graduate high school, attend

college, get married or even have children of his own. Trayvon Martin’s life as well as future was robbed. His family will never have the changes to watch him grow up or accomplish his dreams. Trayvon Martin is an example of a life taken too soon.

Since his death Trayvon’s killer, George Zimmerman has been charged with murder in the second degree. Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty to the charge and is currently out on bonds while awaiting trial. The Mar-tin family publicly announced they’re outraged that more charges against Zimmerman had not been filed. Many agree with the family and believe that Zimmerman should also remain be-hind bars while he awaits trial. Many petitions have been created to sup-port the family’s claim. by: Shaquane Yates

If I see a white man walking down the street looking suspicious can I kill him? ; What happened to Tray-von was unfair. If a black person did what Zimmerman did he would have of gotten life in prison.-Capri JRockhill, SC

I support stand your ground laws, but shooting Trayvon near vital organs was excessive Daniel K.Union City, NJ

He ( Trayvon Martin) is the victim of a hate cream but the hype is too one sided. Hundreds of people die the same way (thru police brutality) but their deaths aren’t pub-licized. Hype should be about the unequal balance of power, not just that he’s black and it was a specifically black hate crime.-Alison F.Sayreville,NJ

It was tricky. All the facts were not clear, all I could go off of was what I heard and that was that a white male killed a black kid. -Marvin P.Elizabeth, NJ

Opinion PageThe people was asked three Questions:

What is your opinion on his case?

I first heard about the Trayvon Martin case when I was home one night and there was a dis-cussion going on about the case on CNN. -Anonymous

I first heard about Trayvon Martin because everybody was talking about how he was killed. -Capri JRockhill, SC

I first heard about Martin from listing to the Rutgers Newark radio station. -Chris A.Newark,NJ

I first heard about trayvon martin on twitter -Anonymous

Where did you first hear about Trayvon Martin?

DoYouKnowWhatHappenedToMe? -Artist Bryant Lebron

-Artist Mellissa Matos

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I think the media in the 1960s in comparison to how it is now are very similar in terms of what is talked about and shown everywhere..most media I believe was and still tries to make white Ameri-cans looks like the victims of certain situations, even if it’s obvious that they aren’t, or they’ll completely blow a bad situation out of proportion if it deals with another ethnicity besides white Americans, such as Hispanics and blacks, which gives them the horrible images that most people see even though we’re all just as guilty despite our differences in race/ethnicity.-Anonymous

With constant acces-sibility to the news via smart and TV. They spend way too much time a nonsense stories and blow things out of proportion. -Anonymous

What do you think about media

I feel the case was a brutal act of racism in America, and the delayed reaction was a highlight of how the media tries to cover up the truth of injustice and discrimina-tion in America. I also feel the case touched people throughout the nation even more because of the of the situation a 17 year old took a simple walk to the store to get snacks and lost his life because of a power hungry racial profiling man with a gun.-Briana H.Orange, NJ

People are murdered everyday for unknown and unknown reasons but we focus on racial and political issues. Anything we can relate to is all anyone cares about. But it’s still bet-ter than 50 years ago when the only way there would be national coverage was if there was activists around.. Even thought it was over publicized better to be over publicized than not published at all... -Chris A.Newark,NJ

Media from the 1960s to now have clearly advanced for the better, but sometimes media today can negatively affect people at times. I believe that the media painted Zimmerman so negatively and pos-sibly fabricated what went on so they could get attention as well as monetary gain. I am not saying that Zimmerman was a saint in that situation, but I believe media painted him way worse than I think he is. Ore A. West Orange, NJ

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Tragic imagination Artiist: Reginald Francois

Word BankTrayvon Martin Stand your ground Arizona Facebbok Florida Media News Skittles Twitter Zimmerman

Simple Facts Trayvon Maritin was born Feburay 5, 1995 and died on Feburay 26 2012. (making him only 17 when he died) Zimmerman is being charged with second degree murder “Stand Your Ground” law was adopted in 2005

Tray von Mar t in was ranked 6th wor ldwide as a Twitter t rending Zimmerman was born to a white Fa-ther and his Peruvian mother

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Trayvon Martin & The Media

Movemovent

With today ’s technol-ogy me -dia is not only for Profes-s ionals l ike News anchors and jour-nal ists . Now media

includes the amateur st y les of a l l people around the wor ld shar ing their thoughts about mult iple topics. Profess ionals and amateurs a l l spoke about Tray von Mar-t in . News about Tray von Mar t in spread around the wor ld fast , mak ing his name bel l r inger for ever yone. Tv Net works such as ABC, C W11, CNN, and CBS, were a l l cover ing the same stor y, Tray von Mar t in , a 17 year o ld death. Mel issa Harr is -Perr y, a Amer ican author, te levis ion host and pol i t ica l commentator, was one of the f i rst peo -ple to discuss Tray von mar t in case. Per-r y c lear ly stated her v iew on the case by stat ing “Laws l ike that make modern-day v igi lant ism that can have these k inds of t ragic consequences,” she sa id. “ Too many young black men are los-ing their l ives to mistaken ident i t y and over zealous assumptions about their cr iminal intent .” (Mel issa Harr is Perr y) Many people shared Perr y ’s thoughts of the t ragic end of Tray von Mar t in’s l i fe.

However there are those l ike Geraldo R ivera , a attorney, journal ist , author, repor ter, and ta lk show host , who sug-gested that Tray von Mar t in was ask ing for t rouble by wear ing a hoodie. R ivera showed up on FOX News discuss ing Tray-

von Mar t in at which he stated “ I ’ l l bet you money, i f he didn’t have that hoodie on, that nutt y neighborhood watch guy wouldn’t have responded in that v iolent and aggress ive way,” (Geraldo R ivera) .

Whi le profess ional repor ters took to the news discuss ing Tray von mar t in , they were not a lone, soical net work s i tes f looded with people voic ing their opin-ion. Tray von Mar t in became pop culture showing up on Socia l Media s i tes l ike Facebook , Twitter, You Tube, among other s i tes. Tray von Mar t in spreading thought out the wor ld a lso created a movement. Socia l media became a way people ev-er y where expressed their feel ings about Tray von Mar t in . Many socia l media users began post ing status, t weet ing and post-ing v ideos about their thoughts on the Tray von Mar t in case. According to w w w.t wee.co Tray von Mar t in was ranked 6th wor ldwide as a Twitter t rending. From ever yday people to celebr i t ies, a l l shar-ing pic tures of themselves in hoodies as Tray von Mar t in was at the t ime of h is death. People post ing how outrage Zim-merman stat ing “he looked suppison” was and quest ion how could Tray von Mar t in

look suspic ious by wear ing a hoodie.

By : M ecca M cDowell

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On April 11, 2012 Florida State At-torney Angela Corey held a press Confer-ence to announced George Zimmerman was charged with second degree murder. In Florida the minimum for second degree murder with a firearm is 25 years in state prison. The next day a judge proclamation of probable case Trayvon Martin case; few days later the judge was removed from the request of Zimmerman’s legal team base that the judge husband works with CNN. April 20, 2012 a bail hearing was held with new judge Kenneth Lester JR. where he set Zimmerman bail at 150,000. April 23, 2012 Zimmerman was re-lease with an ankle bracelet to detect his

where about at all time. Zimmerman law-yer, Mark O’mara , decided to have a “Stand Your Ground” hearing, in order to do that it has to be forty five days(April 26,2013) before Trayvon Martin case starts. Zim-merman team requested Martin’s school records and social media post with a girl he had been on the phone with the night of his death. Martin’s parents and their attorney, Benjamin crump, felt that the defense was attacking theirs son’s character. Zimmerman trail date set for June 10, 2013. By: Geoffrey Stweart

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Credits Special thanks to:

WritersAnika KnightMecca McDowellGeoffrey StewartShaquane Yates

Artisit Reginald FrancoisBryant LebronMelissa Matos

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