I focused on the news groups "The Young Turks" and "The View". It seemed like The Young Turks talked a lot about how unfair it is for her personal business to be leaked to the world, while The View was more focused on getting the girl's side of the story and the people on the show didn't really say much. The Young Turks thought that making fun of her for her personal life is "going too far" and that they shouldn't be bullying her when it's her own life choice. They also said that the girls at Duke who were talking bad about her were just mad because of her financial opportunity, and the guys were just mad because she hasn't slept with them. The View just focused on practically her life story. "Belle Knox" says that she has watched porn since she was 12, and one of the ladies said that that made her sad that she has watched porn since she was that young, and they were also very surprised because she said that her parents supported her porn choice. We also got to see how much she makes from these porn videos ($1000-$1500) and how often she does them (25-30).
I believe that The Young Turks focuses more on defending the girl because they are more laid back and have a lot of young viewers, whereas The View may have not provided a lot of opinions because it is more formal and a lot of older people or middle-age people watch that. So I feel like The View doesn't want to offend any of their viewers by supporting the girl or attacking her because a lot of people watch that show and might have conflicting opinions, whereas I feel like less people watch The Young Turks so they don't have to worry as much about offending anyone.
The Young Turks mainly had young people talking about this issue, while the View had more middle-aged or older people talking about the issue. I feel like that age group and how they talked about this topic really reflect our attitudes towards sex and pornography. I feel like the older people in The View seemed less accepting because in their generation, sex and porn wasn't accepted as much as it is in this generation. I feel like The Young Turks were more accepting because they have grown up in this generation where sex and porn aren't that risqué anymore.
I completely agree with you when you said that The View focuses on getting the girls side of the story. They don't discriminate her on what they have heard, they listened to what her side of the story was.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the view may have tried to just get her story and not throw too many of their own opinions in so they wouldn't upset their viewers. Where like you said the Young Turks don't probably have as many viewers and so they didn't care as much about throwing out their own (maybe unpopular) opinions.
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