Sunday, January 25, 2009
Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land
Even though I support this country, at times I feel that we act before we think. In this case I don't like the fact that the Israelis have persicuted and treated the Palestinians unjustly. For example I never knew that the Israelis invaded Palestine and forced the Palestinians out of their own country. It was evident that the Israelis were forcing the Palestinians out of their own country, taking over their properties, and even their own children. As seen in the video observed in class, the American media portayed that the Israelis were being percicuted by the Palestinians but in actuality the Palestinians were just defending themselves.
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the movie we watched in class explained to us, how reality goes, the american media wants you to call the Arabs terrorist, but your government is making you the terrorist ones in the eyes of Arabs
ReplyDeleteIt was interesting to see the difference between our news coverage and the situation 'on the ground' as the video described it- I have been going on BBC.com and have noticed a serious difference. As they mentioned in the documentary, the use of language of in portraying the Israeli side is important-I noticed on BBC.com that they mention illegal Israeli 'settlements' a lot more and CNN.com just mentions how Israeli 'retaliates.' The use of language and how objective our reporters was very interesting.
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