During the 20’s there were a multitude of scandals over the news media. The main news just became a place where the scandals were told left and right. One of the more famous actors that took the most heat during this time was a beloved actor named Phatty Arbuckle. Because of this scandalous period in news media time he lost everything because the certain legal trouble that he got into. Not only was he attacked for these scandals, but so were the movie themselves. Scandals like these situations are the exact reasons why Hollywood tried to keep negative news out of the media.

In class the other day we watched a documentary about authority. In previous classes I have watched that entire thing, and even to this day, it completely amazes me that those results came about. Why is it that people just obey authority even though deep down they know its wrong. In a real world situation like that I wouldn’t be able to continue at all knowing that someone was in pain due to my actions. I’ve always been about respect because thats how I was raised, but theirs a clear difference between respect and obedience. I was told to obey anything an officer or someone with high power has to say, but in situations like these you need to know the difference between right and wrong and go about it accordingly. If someone important keeps telling you to shock some random person just because they said so I really don’t think I would. Although I know now that the shock was fake and there really wasn’t anyone there, I feel like I’d be one of the certain people who wouldn’t comply.

The Stanford prison experiment is another example of strange obedience. At first it didn’t really startle anyone, but soon enough people began thinking this was the worst idea of they’re lives. Everyone in this experiment signed up for this “torture” and began to hate every second of it, because the people actually began to live they’re assigned roles. These people were completely convinced that they were indeed prisoners or guards of a real prison. These prisoners were humiliated by the guards, to the point they began having mental breakdowns and would lose control of themselves. The torture tactics would only increase from there, and soon enough people wanted out of the experiment. Zimbardos experiment didn’t last very long after that, but the results are clear. If people are given roles they are most likely gonna fill them to they’re perceived view of the role.