The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks Summary

Howard A. Myrick is a journalism professor at Temple University. His article The Search for Objectivity in Journalism describe the lack of objectivity when it is disseminating. Media workers usually want to present news objectively. But what media workers want to present is different from what they present plus what readers understand is usually different from what social media workers present. So, what readers understand is not equal to the truth in the end. People’s thinking are always affecting the information they disseminated, which makes what people present is different from the reality. A news is distorted by people from happening to people know it, even the disseminator try to present the reality objectively. Rebecca Skloot is the

She tried to dig out the truth of HeLa cell’s contributor, which was buried by time and Dr. Grey, and ignore by other media workers. She did not stop to look for the truth when she met setback. Obviously, she is the media worker look for the objectivity. She also has good relationships with Debora who is a black lady. Everything makes her does not looks like a racist. How is her attitude in the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks? According to the the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, “She grew up in a black neighborhood that was one of the poorest and most dangerous in the country” (Skloot 7). “Incest was not

uncommon in the family and Henrietta Lacks herself married her first cousin” ( Skloot 114). Above example are not the only two example. Rebecca Skloot related black, Lacks family, and other bad thing together, such as incest. Readers can feel Rebecca Skloot is a biased writer from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, who has a little bit racialism thinking. Because her book is