Penn State Scandal

Thanks to the social media coverage, it has helped shaped the Penn State scandal in a positive way by allowing information to be more accessible. The continuous coverage has allowed more information to be brought to the public. With a large number of people voicing their views through social networks about the scandal, it has shown the nation what a horrible crime took place, even after there was a possibility to put an end to it. Power, media and deviance intersected by allowing Sandusky not to be brought to law until now. Being such a huge icon in Penn State School, Sandusky was able to for the most part be bigger than the law. When news was brought to the University President, instead of going straight to the police, he instead choose have a conversation with him and tell him to stop it. The crimes that were made committed by Sandusky were inhumane and there is no way of making any senses of them other than they should have never been committed. The covering up of these crimes in my view took place because many saw Sandusky as this football god so therefore he couldn’t have actually committed those crimes. My personal reaction to this whole situation was a difficult one at first because I at first felt that Joe Paterno was fired as just as a form of a scapegoat to take pressure of the school. In my view i felt that was unfair to just basically throw him under the bus after all he has done to the school, from donating money to help building Penn State to a football powerhouse. The more I thought about it, the more I began to see that firing Joe Paterno was the correct move to do because even though he came forward and told the President of the school about what had happen; he did not come forward and told the police. By not coming forward, he allowed Sandusky to be free and continue taking advantage of those boys. Even though he did the right thing, he could have done more and put a stop to those evil crimes that Sandusky was committing. Even, though i still believed that the school should had allowed him to coach that last home game, I agree with them firing Joe Paterno and as for Sandusky, i hope he pays the prices for his crimes.

Luis Carlos
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