There are so many journalists and News providers out in the world and people can’t like every article that is covered. But it is useful and essential in keeping people informed about things that may affect them. News brings out the truth and provides us with facts so that we can decide what to do with that information. However, news can sometimes be more harmful than helpful.

Recently, a student committed suicide at the University of Illinois. According to Student who ‘set fire to himself’ at Krannert Center identified written by Jennifer Marnul of the Tab, Westley Banks, 21, of Gurnee was revealed as the student. The News Gazette did the same.

Minimize harm is one of the ethical codes that journalists follow. By revealing the name of the student, it harms the reputation of the student and the family. Although not confirmed if the family approved or if the writers reached out to the family to ask permission to reveal the name, the person shouldn’t have their name thrown around as the kid who set himself on fire.

Many people are just focusing on the fact that he burned himself on fire and how disturbing it is instead of sending condolences to the family and friends and understanding his situation.

News should be told more respectfully instead of a race to report an update before other News Corporations.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is an underground pipeline built to transfer “crude oil from domestic wells to American consumers” from the Dakota Access Pipeline Facts website.

It is said to be “one of the safest, most technologically advanced pipelines in the world” which is from the government owned site. It also repeatedly states that “The Dakota Access Pipeline does not cross the stand Rock Sioux reservation, however there are already “eight other pipelines” in Lake Oahe that all operate “adjacent to the path of the Dakota Access Pipeline.”

David Ritsher and Rachel de Leon are two reporters who investigated the Dakota Access Pipeline. They produced The Land Beneath the Lake from Reveal and spoke with Candance Ducheneaux who has lived in Lake Oahe who lived there since she “was a young girl.”

Ducheneaux spoke about her father who “was a negotiator for the tribe in settlement talks” when they were building the dams in Lake Oahe. It was a very similar situation to what was happening with the pipelines. Ducheneaux said that it was “the gutting of our reservation” and that it “was [their] home and that was [their] way of life.”

With how the government was portraying the pipelines, it seemed fruitless for the people who lived there to protest or negotiate with the government. With this $3.8 billion project, it would affect all the people who live in Lake Oahe even though it may be positive for other Americans.

“Oil was placed in the Dakota Access Pipeline” in “March 2017” with Trump’s go which shows the little influence they held.

Being able to express things in different forms is a freedom from the First Amendment and doing it without restrictions is a right that should follow. According to the NPR article Twitter Sues Homeland Security To Protect Anonymity Of ‘Alt Immigration’ Account by Camila Domonoske, Trumps’ administration began to limit the amount of posts agencies can have on social media thus, leading many to create alternate accounts with pseudonyms that relate to the account.

Homeland Security infringed on these rights by trying to uncover the identity of the owner of the ALT Immigration account on Twitter. Homeland Security “demanded to know the name, login information, phone number, mailing address and IP address of the user.” By uncovering the identity, they would shut down the account also layout legal punishment for the owner of the account. In response, ALT Immigration posted an imagery-filled comment of, “FYI, some refugees became refugees out of fear of being unmasked by dictators because of dissent/opposing views . Lets not have that here.”

Not only was the response from ALT Immigration sound, but Twitters’ response by suing Homeland Security was very supportive of protecting peoples’ rights. If Twitter were to lose then “where will they stop?”