After watching the NBC announcement that Matt Lauer was fired, write a one page review of NBC’s actions to “steal the thunder” of this breaking crisis for them. It is important to note that as mentioned in the Vanity Fair article, the NYT and Vanity Fair were both on the verge of breaking stories related to Lauer and sexual assault allegations. Were they successful in the handling of their “me too” crisis? How did the lack of addressing this sooner impact their actual response at the time? What impact did this have on their target audience for Today Show viewers? What crisis communications objectives were achieved using their response?
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In 2007, American activist Tarana Burke used the term “MeToo” to raise awareness and stand with victims of sexual abuse. A decade later, the hashtag went viral as women came forward to accuse powerful men of harassment and misconduct. Now, #MeToo has evolved into a global movement, generating new or spinoff hashtags in many languages. It has impacted countries around the world — and has also been transformed by them. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, activism on women’s rights and gender-based violence has not ceased. If anything, in some cases, it has gained new urgency online.
into their subconscious to get to the root of the problems. This specific study almost encapsulates all of the approaches in one. Instead of just asking the “how” it mentions the why, how, and when a person behaves the way they do. Freud also brought up the concept of psychoanalysis. This was a new way of digging into a person’s unconscious thoughts. Although it’s a lengthy process, it’s thought that through time a person can talk their subconscious thoughts to their consciousness. Something Freud believed could be used to get to the root of many people’s psychological illnesses, problems, and behaviors. However, many scientists and psychologists don’t support this approach because there isn’t any scientific proof or data behind his method. There isn’t a way to make sure that it would work and be a good analysis because it works mainly off a case by case basis, and to use it on a mass population would be generalizing them (McLeod). I think this specific approach to psychology to is important because it takes in account the factors that form us as a person from birth all the way up to environmental differences. Most people become the person they are from the way they were raised and from the people they’re surrounded by. It is believed that the most vital part of the mind is that which most scientists can’t see or explain, the subconscious. It is believed that we form a subconscious over time, which is influenced by many outside sources listed above. I think that this is also important because it caused such a controversial argument within the research world. Some scientists believe that you can’t test something and base a theory on something you can not see and people’s experiences from childhood that they may not even remember. There is really no scientific evidence to back it up, only personal experiences (McLeod). I think that it could be useful to get a deeper look into a persons thought process but I think it’s too personal of a subject for it to be used for a public purpose.