Sunday, April 8, 2007

Only after reading the article, I get to see the big and real picture of the situation in Iraq.. As an audience, I felt betrayed by the media. I always thought that USA was trying to help Iraq to recover from war and USA soldiers were even sacrificed during the process. USA is always portrayed as the "Big Brother", helping other smaller countries. Never did we know that it was not the truth at all. What we see from the news is just a medium used to "glorify" the USA.
In my opinion, the reason why the media behaves like this is because of the great influence of USA. They knew USA could not be offended as it will bring major consequences such as mass attacks.Thus, they can only choose the safer way out. That is to support USA.
Moreover, the media might be afraid to stir up people's feelings which might inflict trouble and caused social instability. Thus, they do not want to bear the responsibility for it and chose to remain "silent".
However, this situation must not go on forever as truths and falsehoods might not be portrayed correctly. The righteous will never get their innocence back. Media will then serve as a propaganda tool for a so-called "democratic" based world.

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