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Originally posted by AngelofDeath:
Silver Cheetah, are you refering to the Media in Europe as a whole, or Italy. Here in America the Media is left winged, and Liberal. How about we get everyone to let go of the emotion, and just report facts. Then, we the people can decide for ourselves.
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What! Um, that must be a different American media than the one I'm familiar with. Maybe you don't quite get the concept of left wing? As for reporting facts, that's a tricky one. I've been a writer all my life, and I've studied both the language of politics and the language of media. Not to mention my own experience as a journalist, and a copywriter. I can tell you this much, there is no such thing as pure reportage of facts. By the very nature of reporting, some is included, some left out. And then you have the politics of the paper owner, which has an impact on what is and is not reported, you have the fact that the paper has to sell, that will also have an impact on what is reported, and then you have the fact that each individual journalist also has their own bias. Language is subjective. An objective view is impossible. Words, especially adjectives, have negative and positive connotations. Some words are very emotive.
Obviously, I am not in America right now, and cannot see all your papers. However, our own Guardian often reprints articles from various papers, including the Washington Post, the New York Times and so on. I didn't see much evidence of 'letting go of emotion'. (Not would I expect too, especially soon after the event happened. Emotion is natural. The British papers were emotional too.
However, the more left wing liberal papers, such as the Guardian, and to a large degree The Independent are most interested in the causes of terrorism, rather than just being content to rah rah rah about what we're going to do to the terrorists, war on terrorism and so on.
They do a great deal of intelligent reporting, including comment and analysis on those causes, which includes exploring the various Middle Eastern views. For example, The Guardian printed a 12 minute interview with Mullah Omar Mohammad, the Taliban Leader, which was conducted in Pashtu for the publicly funded radio channel Voice of America, which was pulled the previous Friday following objections from the US deputy secretary of state and senior officials of the National Security Council. Reading it, I wasn't quite sure why it had been pulled actually, but was most glad the Guardian saw fit to print it, as I like to get my information from as many sources as possible.
In the same edition of the Guardian, we have an interview with the Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai, who has met and interviewed bin Laden on several occassions, and who has tried to give us an insight into his mind. A reasoned and balanced attempt to get the other side of the story. Anyway, as I say, I only see some parts of the American newspapers, and so I cannot speak for them. I can only comment on what I have seen, which is to my mind no way left wing liberal!
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