I've been having these thoughts these last weeks:
"A bomb in Baghdad" "People killed in Palestine" same headlines, and we! we don't even care, we watch the news with a dead heart. and we see those horrible pictures/scenes like it's a normal thing.
We don't have our own opinion over anything now, our opinions are served to us on tv, when we watch the news, we only see what they want us to see, and they only show it from their point of view -don't know who's they-! Al-Jazeera for an example goes -or supposingly goes- by this: "al ra2i w al ra2i ala5ar" as in it shows different views.
We've stopped watching it ages ago, I don't even know if we have it now or not, and I don't even care.
There are a few channels that don't give you personalized news, and they give you news from an objective point of view and let you decide what you want to think.
Surely there's a lot of news we're not hearing about, this world has some terrible stuff more than we know, maybe more than we can imagine.
Our teachers always ask us about the news when they have watched to brag about that and to tell us that we should be updated on what's happening in the world. but if we ask them what's happening in the world in a day they haven't brought that up they'll tell that: my kid was screaming all day, or I've been busy grading your papers or any other excuse! Well, we've never asked them so that's just me imagining what they'd say.
And also apart from the news, when they advertise for anything they say: It's the best!!!
well, let us decide, how about that? :P
3 comments:
I completely agree with you. It makes a lot of sense, report the facts and let us make up our own opinion about what happened. Most news channels ranging from CNN to news papers like Times of India fail miserably on that account.
And thanks for your comment by the way :)
I agree with you too. It is very unfortunate that the media has lost its objective view.
But, coming from a journalist's daughter, this is what people want: Chewed up, concise news that tell you what's right and what's wrong. Just like at school, they want you to memorize a bunch of facts without you giving value to what you read.
Of course, we could do something about it :). Let's never lose hope!*
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