Being Critical

This is a newsworthy article in my opinion.

The BBC posted an article updating the status of Guantanamo Bay. Two days ago was the deadline that the President had set to have the prison shut down but recent issues have postponed that goal.

It doesn’t talk about any famous people or an amazing water-skiing dog, the content is real and to some it’s has huge impact. Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay who are deemed “to dangerous” to be released will be spending an indefinite amount of time at the prison because of the lack of solid evidence. The demographic that the article hits is people who have family members imprisoned or even the people of the prisoners native country, it will strike a chord in the groups of people that have been working towards the freeing of the wrongfully imprisoned, and it will undoubtedly make a large number of republicans people very happy.

The article also focuses on the dismay that Obama supporters may feel by the failure of President Obama to shut down the prison as he had planned. People who don’t support the President will rejoice with the new reason to reticule him, but people are always curious to know what the President of the United States is doing because he is, of course, the President and he is the person that some of us voted for to make decisions and changes on our behalf. Many will be disappointed that Guantanamo is still open but some, as I mentioned before, will be delighted with the idea that “those people” will stay imprisoned.

The article also brings to light the controlling situation that is going on at Guantanamo Bay. Yemen prisoners were supposed to be freed immediately but only if the conditions of Yemen were conducive to the Americans. Subsequently, none of them were released because of an alleged Yemen based plot to blow-up an airline. This of course will catch the eye of some people who have been following the Guantanamo Bay news since it started making headlines. Conspiracy theorists will be all over it.

The article overall doesn't reach out to a whole lot of people, like say the water-skiing dog would, but it does carry with it a lot of good and important information for people who are closely linked to it or just keeping up with topics that are important to them. I believe that this piece was written with the intent to inform people of the situation, not necessarily because it was high rating news.

Read for yourself:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8476358.stm