This twitter assignment opened my eyes to the entire Penn State Scandal. Hearing about it and actually seeing other peoples responses is completely different. Most of the responses, or tweets, I found criticized the protesters at Penn State. I believe that the media has shaped the entire scandal into a scandal that is more about what is going to happen to the football team rather than what is going to happen to the victims of the entire ordeal. Our culture idolizes sport and sport legends and nobody seems to want to acknowledge this. It is completely obvious that our priorities are completely mixed up, especially with this scandal.
Joe Paterno obviously held a lot of respect and power within his community, however some people still hold him up with high regard instead of recognizing that his silence had a huge negative impact within this case; silence can be and was completely detrimental in a case such as this and a lot of people refuse to recognize this. The media reflects this idea that power is the most important aspect even if it overshadows justice. Because people idolize those in power, especially in sports, faults and injustices are often overlooked and swept under the rug because again our priorities are off. The entire cover-up most likely happened because those in control weighed the downfall of a legendary football coach against the lives of innocent young children and decided that football was more important and quite honestly, it’s disgusting. Personally, I was glad to see that so many people were criticizing the Penn State students for rioting, it gives us hope for humanity. How can these people justify Joe Paterno’s actions? How can people look at him and say that his silence wasn’t extremely damaging in this case? People hold sports heroes up and its sad the lengths they will go to in order to prevent those heroes from falling.
-Erin Osborne
KIN 338I
T/Th 2-3:15
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