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Writing Skills for Journalists - an insight in to the strange fascination that people have with making a catastrphie or the destruction of an object a media event.
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Justin Camilleri B.Communications 3rd year I.D: 532276(M) ENG 1003 Writing Skills for Journalists AN INSIGHT INTO THE STRANGE FASCINATION THAT PEOPLE HAVE WITH MAKING A CATATROPHE OR THE DESTRUCTION OF AN OBJECT A MEDIA EVENT. This opinion article tries to outline why the destruction of New York is presented in films and takes the 11th September terrorist attack as a case study and it attempts to find reasons why disasters that happen in real life remain stamped in the imagination of the human psyche. The destruction of the New York skyline has long been an obsession for the American film industry. It is depicted a lot in the Planet of the Apes series when in the first film's memorable closing sequence we see Charlton Heston finding the Statue of liberty half buried in the sand. The sequel " Beneath the Planet of the Apes" goes one step further where it has Charlton Heston and James...
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