Analysis Of The Satire Series Frontline: The Siege

Stories sometimes are true and sometimes they are false but it is up to the public to believe in what is right and what is wrong. In this day and age, where information is available at the touch of a mouse, it’s not surprising that the media is a particularly dominant and powerful

“This is true.” (O’Brien, 420) – with this simple statement which also represents a first, three-word introductory paragraph to Tim O’Brien’s short story, “How to Tell a True War Story”, the author reveals the main problem of what will follow. “Truth” – when looked up in a dictionary, we would probably find definitions similar to sincerity and honesty on the one hand, and correctness, accuracy or reality on the other hand. When looking at these definitions, one can make out two groups of meaning: While sincerity and honesty are very subjective, correctness or accuracy are supposed to be objective by nature. One can be sincere and still not report the truth, due to the simple fact

On the covers of newspapers and on the screens of many, the story of the Boston marathon hits the ground. Twenty six thousand eight hundred thirty nine people from all over the world came to run in this awe-inspiring marathon. Until the tragedy strikes right in their faces. The explosions, injuring scores of people, effected the lives of innocent civilians. Cheers were replaced with screams, sirens, and the first responders providing aide to the citizens. This was a brutal event just like the one on September 11, 2001. Instead of using seclusion towards political and economical reasons for events, the mass medias perceptive towards incidents involving the religion Islam has created the stereotypical thought in society in which we live in today.

It is addressed in the article how fickle the public is when it comes to what entertains them. News stories like “‘Heroic American fighters’ was the best and most marketable story before and during the major fighting. ‘Suicide bomber attacks’ has proven has proven to be a forceful story in the last

In this Time Magazine article, writer Fred Ritchen debates the merit of violent photos in media. He begins with the events that prompted him to write this essay. He lists “A recent slew of situations resulting in catastrophic violence and death” (Ritchen, p1). This grouping of events, ranging from disease to plane crashes, has brought to light again the question of what a journalist’s duty is in reference of how much of a horror to show and how much to keep from the public. Ritchen’s argument culminates to the fact that the space taken up by showing these horrors of war and similar atrocities could be better used to prevent further events.

This documentary is all about public reasoning and the media roles to the people. Hate speech over the radio and television evokes the people’s emotion, as seen in this documentary. The recent shootings witnessed in some areas in the USA leaves people with varied questions about the greatest effect that hate speech and media had created. People have emotions related to conflicts especially the pastor who questions the role of media. This conflict resulted because of emotions especially anger in this

As you can see from my transcript, I have always performed well in my academics. Though I faced many challenges in school, I found it far easier to work with words and numbers than with other people. My biggest obstacle in my high school career were the projects where my success was tied to other people.

It is important to tell the facts with details yet never lose their humanity and this dramatic story did just that. The story was only focused on the 17-year-old’s life but still tells a bigger picture of how major the conflict is. She discusses how easy it is for her to kill people, how her family has died, what she wants for her future, and even her celebrity crushes. These details remind the reader how she is still human. The controversial article remains ethical because it passes the test of the ethical news values of accuracy, tenacity and equity. Monaghan exhibits accuracy since she uses the correct facts in context. She knows that the story is important enough for additional information through tenacity and seeks justice for the 17-year-old in this major issue with the value of

This week I focused on finding articles about how the media affected Muslims refugees and why European are afraid of Muslims. I took a class about the European Union in Norway, and because European Union biggest fear is refugees and immigrants. EU citizens are afraid of the Islamic law because they don’t anything about it. Most people use the media as a resource because they don’t have time to study and look around. From me, living in the US for about 5 years and so many people were asking me about the Islamic law and how we do it. So many people were afraid of asking me at first, but my friends and me were cool about it and we showed them that we are cool with questions. For me I don’t main asking and receiving questions because it will break the ice, and we need to break the ice to live peacefully together. Writing this paper because I want to inform people about our fears. As Muslim, the media made our lives so hard abroad. We have to explain ourselves after every attack. Meanwhile other attacks have been committed by others from a different religion, but no one making it big a deal.

The questioning of the maidservant of the Talwar’s by the media is outrageous, both inside and outside of the studio is a typical example of the kind of sensationalism that the media has tried to generate. Corporate media houses before resorting to such interviews should keep in mind the fact the power of investigation rests only with the police and no one else. Some TV channels went to ridiculous lengths to keep this case in the public’s attention by resorting to the most pathetic form of reporting.

This week I chose to analyze the ways in which three online news websites portrayed the bombings that took place in Mogadishu, Somalia on Saturday October 28. My news websites for this assignments are CNN World and the article was written by Omar Nor and Ray Sanchez. My second article was from BBC and the website doesn’t provide the author of the article. And my third article was from Reuters and the article was written by Abdi Sheikh.

Media informs and influences us, as well as it impacts our perception, knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about certain things that take place. June 12, 2016 was a tragic night at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard, initiated a terrorist attack, killing 49 people and wounding 53. He used an AR-15-style rifle and a handgun to carry out the attack. The hate crime took place just shortly before the club was supposed to close. When people started hearing bullets being shot, they started to hide under the bar, on the ground of the dance floor, in the bathrooms, looking for exits wherever they could. This is one great example of a tragic occurrence that received a great amount of coverage worldwide, and it sparked a large amount of interest, reaction, and attention from people. I want to discuss five articles specifically, published within a week 's time of each other, that are written with different intentions for different audiences.

The public believes what the media writes due to the immediacy of the reporting and the inaccessibility of other information. When contemplating whether to kill the Afghan herders or let them go, Luttrell explains why, despite being the incorrect military decision, freeing the herders might be the best choice. He fears that if they are killed, then the media will “latch on to it and write stuff about the brutish U.S. Armed

I am currently writing a thesis at the University of Pennsylvania considering European media’s conception and representation of terrorist attacks in Europe and the Middle East. Under Dr. Barbie Zelizer, I am performing a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Western European coverage of both the 2015 Paris Attack and Beirut Bombing to consider how Islamic terrorism is represented in the press. At Leuven, I will continue researching European representations of Muslim communities. I will investigate how modern narratives of Islamophobia, terrorism, and radicalization in Belgium, and Europe as a whole, have impacted Belgian Islamic identity. To do this, I will perform a sociological interview study, speaking with Muslim community leaders, Muslim-focused NGO staff, and Middle Eastern diplomats. I have secured a letter of affiliation from the Director of the MAES program, Dr. Patrick Pasture, who has agreed to supervise my thesis as it fits into an interdisciplinary research project he is pursuing.

“Yes, the media covered both the Paris and Beirut attacks, as it covers most acts of terrorism. But it did not cover them in the same way” (Ajaka, 2015), a quote I found very interesting by Ajaka, written in The Article, speaks for itself. My concerns with this problem are that it doesn’t show equality in human, it lacks ethical approaches in some media. In this paper I will be tackling the difference between media in Lebanon and in Paris, concerning both terrorist attacks that happened back to back. I believe it isn’t ethical to expose victims of violence to the gaze of the media.