Media Critique

In 2014 during an episode of 60 minutes, reporter Lara Logan went to Liberia in Africa were Ebola was spreading massively. During her time there she interviewed two American doctors and one American nurse. There were a few clips of people from Africa burying bodies, cleaning cars, and singing songs. However, they did not interview one single doctor or patient from Africa. They only included only one story about a boy who was diagnosed with Ebola and had died one week later. We really only got one viewpoint which was from doctors who were from America. There was never an interview from an African doctor or patient that was stable enough to be interviewed telling us there story and how it feels for them that this sickness is spreading to so many people and the majority of them are dying all in there county. How it feels for them to be loosing there friends and family. Some might say that they may not won't to reveal there face or can not speak english. At the same time there are still translaters who can translate what they are saying and they could just record the voice instead of revealing the persons face. Also, many other news broadcasters such as CNN were covering the same story and were able to have at least one African doctor or patient speaking being interviewed. Which proves to show that there was a way to get in contact and interview those living in Africa. Clearly, 60 minutes is a highly realiable source to be informed on current news, but I believe that this was biased from only one view point.