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All I Want is The truth, Nothing but the Truth, so Help me Guys!
August 3, 2003 - 02:05 AM
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How long we need to wait until people realize that they have been taken for a ride? What can we do to make them know that most of the news that they hear on TV are not true? I am talking about the average person who has no access to the internet, who can't surf for alternative news sources. The media in the US has become such monopoly, so when you hear one news channel, like you heard them all. They should make it easier for us and make one news channel, and call it, the White House News. According to recent finding, BBC News is watched by Americans more than Britains, that should tell you that either Americans love British accent, or they don't believe their own news, choose your pick.
On a lighter note, let me leave you with this quote for Goerge Bush: "I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy on teaching children to read and having an education system that's responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system that refuses to change, will make America what we want it to be - a more literate country and a hopefuller country." -George W. Bush, Jan. 2001
Anywho,(Yes, I meant it to be anywho, in case you where wondering)
If you want to know the reason for my frustration, read this great article, and please put your input, common....
http://truthout.org/docs_03/080303G.shtml
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Re: All I Want is The truth, Nothing but the Truth, so Help me Guys!
August 3, 2003 - 02:32 AM
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Originally posted by Hoda
How long we need to wait until people realize that they have been taken for a ride? What can we do to make them know that most of the news that they hear on TV are not true? I am talking about the average person who has no access to the internet, who can't surf for alternative news sources. The media in the US has become such monopoly, so when you hear one news channel, like you heard them all. They should make it easier for us and make one news channel, and call it, the White House News. According to recent finding, BBC News is watched by Americans more than Britains, that should tell you that either Americans love British accent, or they don't believe their own news, choose your pick.
On a lighter note, let me leave you with this quote for Goerge Bush: "I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy on teaching children to read and having an education system that's responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system that refuses to change, will make America what we want it to be - a more literate country and a hopefuller country." -George W. Bush, Jan. 2001
Anywho,(Yes, I meant it to be anywho, in case you where wondering)
If you want to know the reason for my frustration, read this great article, and please put your input, common....
http://truthout.org/docs_03/080303G.shtml
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Re: All I Want is The truth, Nothing but the Truth, so Help me Guys!
August 3, 2003 - 02:57 AM
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Your picture is very touching, Hoda!
When we look at such pics we should think about how this family was destroyed by killing the son, the father or even the mother.
We should think of those ppl on these pics as our family and only then will we be able to evaluate Bush's administration correctly.
The West always talks about freedom of speech and media in their countries but i believe that this "legend" is far from true and everyone should have known it by now!
God help the victims..
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missing song!
August 30, 2003 - 09:37 AM
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Hey..
don`t think this is tears it is the medel of honner..
this photo.. is something we just see once . but they live wit it everyday.
i think they tok their choise to fight for a case and have a meaning to die free btter than to live putting thier faces in the sand.
Hope one day come a child can sing the libirty song.
sing and never fear..
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Get Your Facts Straight
September 1, 2003 - 01:02 AM
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Hoda, your use and misrepresentation of media discounts any valid argument you may make. That picture you portray is of an American soldier helping an Iraqi woman!
TakingItGlobal is meant to be a youth (under 30) forum for the exchange of constructive ideas. You continually use these pictures in your posts, yet are very creative about your captions. Get your facts straight before posting such absurd rhetoric.
Michael Cartier
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Hoda
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Did you do your home work Cartier?
September 2, 2003 - 01:06 AM
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Mr. Cartier, check out some of the members on TIG, and you realize that you have some members who are way over 40's. beside, it is the idea that count. So because you don't agree with my idea' and believes, you are trying to find a way to kick me out ? is this your idea of democracy? either you are with us or against us? to borrow president Bush's words. If you don't like what I like, just don't read it, as simple as this.
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Hussein Macarambon
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Re: All I Want is The truth, Nothing but the Truth, so Help me Guys!
September 2, 2003 - 05:58 AM
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Originally posted by Hoda
How long we need to wait until people realize that they have been taken for a ride? What can we do to make them know that most of the news that they hear on TV are not true?
I strongly believe that the picture Hoda posted was valid and appropriate. It shows a soldier (my guess is that he's with the US Forces because of his uniform) apparently helping a woman(my guess is that she is from the Middle East/Near East because of her clothes but I cant really say where she's from). Yes, the soldier helping the woman is very obvious as what Cartier stated in his earlier post; but this is what the media publishes so that we may see that a foreign power is abetting the people of a war-stricken land to stand up from the rubbles of a vanished dictatorship (this is just poetry, and not a rhetoric).
Hoda was asking an honest question. How do we know if the news we hear on TV is true or not? I think questioning if the intent of the soldier was to really help the woman is as bona fide as asking if the woman was crying out of gratitude for the man's help, or a terrible thing happened and the man was just beside her when the photo was taken. It is impossible to tell what the two persons in the picture felt at that moment but inferring that a bigger picture exists outside what we are made to witness by the media is absolutely not incorrect. The bigger picture is that a "Foreign power rules a land of the challenged" and like Hoda, these people examine the intention of that foreign power.
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Re: All I Want is The truth, Nothing but the Truth, so Help me Guys!
September 2, 2003 - 09:09 AM
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An example of media bias from www.fair.org
FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting 112 W. 27th Street New York, NY 10001
MEDIA ADVISORY:
Journalists Find "Calm" When Only Palestinians Die
August 22, 2003
The deadly bus bombing in Jerusalem on August 19 was foreshadowed by a pair of suicide attacks a week earlier which killed two Israeli civilians. While U.S. media tended to portray these attacks as a return to violence after a relatively peaceful period, there were numerous killings in the weeks leading up to the suicide bombings that underscore the lack of evenhanded attention given to loss of life in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
When the two Palestinian suicide bombers each killed an Israeli civilian along with themselves on August 12, U.S. news outlets immediately depicted the attacks as an apparent resurgence in Mideast violence. "Summer truce shattered in Israel," announced CBS (8/12/03), while NBC (8/12/03) reported that "the attacks broke more than a month of relative silence." The Los Angeles Times (8/13/03) wrote that the bombings "broke a six-week stretch during which the people of this war-weary land had enjoyed relative quiet."
During this six-week period of "relative quiet," however, some 17 Palestinians were killed and at least 59 injured by Israeli occupation soldiers and settlers, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society. The dead included Mahmoud Kabaha, a four-year-old boy, who was sitting in the back seat of a jeep with his family at a checkpoint when an Israeli soldier shot him dead-- in a spray of bullets that the army simply called an "accidental burst of gunfire" (Associated Press, 7/25/03). Virtually none of the major U.S. news reports on the August 12 bombings alluded to the Palestinian death toll in this period, leaving out a key piece of the story: For Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, the violence had never ceased; while the Israeli attacks had decreased, there had never been anything like an Israeli cease-fire.
An Associated Press report on August 19 (filed prior to that day's bombing) did acknowledge that since June 29, "more than 20 people have been killed on the Israeli and Palestinian sides." What it didn't note was that of those "more than 20," at least 21 were Palestinian, according to the Red Crescent.
After a month and a half in which Palestinians were being killed several times a week and receiving relatively little mention, the Washington Post and New York Times both put the bombings on their August 13 front pages, each declaring the violence a break from weeks of "relative calm," and each including a front-page photo of the victims' relatives in mourning. USA Today also put grieving relatives on the front page, along with the headline, "Two Suicide Attacks End a Six-Week Lull in Conflict." One can empathize with the losses of those survivors while recognizing that the families of the Palestinians who died during the "lull" were virtually invisible.
On CNN, the August 12 bombings were a major story, with eight separate segments mentioning the attacks in a three-hour period. Anchor Wolf Blitzer declared a "grim return to the battle days in Israel and the Palestinian territories." His colleague Aaron Brown echoed that theme, noting that "after a period of relative calm there has been a major surge in violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories." Correspondent Jerrold Kessel reported that the bombings "cast doubt on the viability of this peace process known as the road map for peace."
These bombings had killed four people, including the bombers. Just four days earlier, on August 8, two Palestinians and one Israeli were killed in an Israeli raid on a suspected militant, while two more Palestinians were killed at an ensuing rally-- one shot, and the other killed by Israeli tear gas (Chicago Tribune, 8/9/03). But those five deaths-- mainly Palestinian-- were not deemed a "major surge in violence" or a "grim return to the battle days" on CNN. Instead, anchor Carol Costello (8/8/03) suggested that the Israeli raid "may be another smudge, a bump if you will, on that road map to peace."
The media's tendency to downplay-- or completely ignore-- Palestinian suffering and death is nothing new. In late 2001 and the beginning of 2002, for example, a loose cease-fire declared by Yasir Arafat led to a period of very few Israeli deaths, but sustained Palestinian deaths-- and the American media repeatedly referred to it as a time of "relative calm" (FAIR Action Alert, 1/10/02, 2/5/02).
In order to convey the Mideast crisis in all its complexity, journalists need to take seriously the violence suffered by all communities. References to "relative calm" while Palestinians are being routinely killed only serve to trivialize human life and obscure the cycle of violence that afflicts the region.
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