The Moscow Theatre Hostage Crisis

Control of all the media allows this to happen. Without the permission of the state, no publication, film, art, or music is allowed to exist. Those who suggest the information is incorrect are considered to have committed an act of treason and are severely punished. In fig. 1(Stalin Approving a USSR Model of the Pavilion by Aleksandr Pavlovich Bubnov) the central figure, Communist leader Joseph Stalin, is greeted enthusiastically. The expressions of the happy crowd imply not only that Stalin has broad support, but that he is worshiped as well. In a totalitarian state, not only is the media supervised but the police serves to enforce the central government’s

“Words of Fire,” by Anthony Collings, details the lives of different journalists in regards to free press and covering potentially dangerous stories. Anthony Collings is a former CNN reporter who shifted his focus from reporting to telling the story of journalists who have come under fire in a power struggle between government and free press. Collings puts free press into a spectrum, on one side there is the United States, where the press is largely free, and on the other side there are places like North Korea or China where press is largely restricted by the government. Collings does not focus on these extremes, but rather the places in the middle where there is an ongoing struggle between state power.

The Kremlin does not take kindly to any who would question its authority, whether through speech, essays, or social media. In fact, all protests except those authorized by the government are illegal. Another example of their censorship is visible in 2015 when the Kremlin attempted to disconnect Russia’s internet from that of the rest of the world in order to close the country from outside influences (Soldatov 396). The reason for such adamancy on the subject of censorship is due to the fact that Russian authorities have reimplemented their repressive tactics towards opponents since Vladimir Putin’s presidential reelection in 2012 (Gel’den 7). The Kremlin bases its success off of the extent of control it can exert. Thus, the breeding ground of ideas that is the internet is dangerous to their objectives. While it is impossible to completely shut the country off from external influences at the moment, Russia is definitely capable of stifling domestic opposition; especially that of the people

Freedom of the press is one of the most important aspects of democracy. In many countries including Canada and the USA it is at the forefront of their civil rights. Yet often when ideals are not in congruency with the government this right is tested. There has not been a great deal of media coverage on the protests taking place in North Dakota against the Keystone Pipeline. Documentary filmmakers are now facing decades in prison over their filming of the protests. Deia Schlosberg and Lindsay Grayzel are facing felony charges and advocates are stating that this is a direct attack on their first amendment rights. It is important to hear about cases like this because we need to maintain media democracy to protect our own democratic society. Furthermore, the agenda setting theory seems to

There are many important events that have occurred in this world. To the United States, Iran was important. This is because Iran gave oil to the industrial West. In this case, the United States wanted to keep Iran independent and stable. Though, the relations between the two countries soon became broken. One major event was between the United States of America and Iran, which was the Iranian Hostage Crisis.

The media had a direct effect on America’s view of the hostage situation. Americans were unaware of the growing power of Islamic forces in Iran and that President Carter was at their mercy and unable to negotiate for freedom of the hostages in fear of losing control over American interests in the Persian Gulf. The media was very influential in the rising disapproval of Carter. Everyday Americans were reminded that the hostages were still being held because of Carters unsuccessful attempts at freeing them. Farber also writes about the media in Iran. Controlled by Russia, Iran media was loaded with anti-American propaganda that only fueled Iranians hatred towards the American government.

In the propaganda model media’s function is to inform the public with values and beliefs that will integrate them but if the power is in the hands of state, which means if the state controls the media. It is clear that the media serves the state and their dominant elite. The propaganda and Duncan’s analysis both agree that the journalists that covered the Marikana massacre had critiques and inequality in their reporting. Both Chomsky and Duncan focused on this inequality of power and civil servants. Clearly money and power are able to filter out news that is fit to go to print. This means that government and dominant private interests are able to get their messages across to the

Through Russia's history the government has taken away freedom of press to further strengthen their regime. After all according to Podrabinek “suppression of free speech is the trademark of dictatorship”.“In 1917, the Russian Bolsheviks moved to limit freedom of speech the very day after the October coup-d’état. They adopted the "Decree on the Press," which shut down any newspapers "sowing discord by libelous distortion of facts." (Podrabinek). Even today Russia continues to limit its citizens freedom of speech and the rate we're going Trump will too. Trump is already alienating news outlets claiming they are fake and crooked. In addition to all that his restricting the movement of those who would call him out on his dictatorial ways by banning them from

First, as a result of World War II, the Ingush and Chechens were deported from their ancestral lands and majority of Ingushetia’s territory was put into North Ossetia’s control. Second, two instances of ethnic cleansing occurred that are found to be relevant to the Beslan attack. One instance involved Ossetian authorities forcing over 30,000 Ingush people from their land. Another was a war between the Russian and the Chechen that resulted in 80,00-100,000 murdered. Third, Vladimir Putin allowed the use of aerial bombing during the second Chechen war. By doing so, approximately 20,000 Chechen and Ingush people were killed and over 300,000 Chechens were driven out of their territory. Overall, the citizens of Chechnya and Ingushetia experienced a number of years filled with trauma and death.

On October 1, 1999, Russian troops crossed the border into the de facto Republic of Chechnya, this was merely a new episode in a series of conflicts that plagued the region since the 18th century, and still present until today. In 1783 the North Caucasus region which includes Chechnya was ceded to Russia, and in 1859 Chechnya was formally annexed. Still it the reoccurrence of conflicts suggest that Chechens have never really accepted being a part of Russia, nor were they assimilated, violence eruption took a form of cycles from 1785 to 1791 the Sheikh Mansur revolt, the Great Gazavat (Murid War) from 1829 to 1859, the Russian Civil War from 1921 to the mid 1930’s, insurgency during Second World War from 1940-1944, Chechen Slav ethnic clashes

The government assigned this task to the mass media. Every political event in Russia found resonance in a poster.

Children of Heaven (1997) is a film about a boy, Ali, who tragically loses his sisters, Zahra, shoes. In order to make good Ali must find a way to return or replace Zahra’s shoes. In the process of trying to track down Zahras shoes down the two resort to sharing an old pair of sneakers in order to keep from burdening their parents in the dark. Once Ali gives up on retrieving Zahra’s shoes he moves on to “Plan B”, he must win her some shoes.

Government and media influencing each other is a tender ethical situation. Initially, it seems simply appalling that any government would either censor or use its media as a tool, but considering the possible benefits of such acts makes the issue more complex. What if censorship saves lives? What if manipulating the media brings a resolution to a conflict?

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." This quote by A.J. Liebling illustrates the reality of where the media stands in today's society. Over the past twenty years there has been an increase in power throughout the media with regard to politics. The media's original purpose was to inform the public of the relevant events that occurred around the world. The job of the media is to search out the truth and relay that news to the people. The media has the power to inform the people but often times the stories given to the public are distorted for one reason or another. Using slant and sensationalism, the media has begun to shape our views in society and the process by which

Media has always played a vital role in the prosperity of a country by many ways but when it crosses the limits, it leads to violence. The media where on one hand update the whole nation with the current events, happenings and