I recently came across quite a disturbing video clip streamed from news channel Al-Jazeera. It was the image of two dead children at a morgue, wrapped in white sheets with all but their faces exposed. I later found out that the pictures were repeated on the channel, often and for significant periods of time, even as broadcasters gave the news of the hour or interviewed various guests.
Aljazeera has been particularly critisised for the way it has produced news on the war in Gaza. I wonder how the British public would respond to such images on the news. The BBC’s ‘no blood’ policy may have played a huge part in the ignorance of the British public.
Analysts suggested that because these images were seen all around the world, they played an important role in influencing the people to protest by the tens of thousands, burn effigies and Israeli flags and demand action from their governments. The core controversial subject of Aljazeera is broadcasting of harsh, brutal and disturbing images of war and terrorism that western audiences are shunned from. In the view of the channel itself, these images portray ‘real news’, however in some western views, it is seen as biased, brain washing and inappropriate. The channel receives constant pressures from the west to change the production style and intensity of the imagery, and there is continuous disagreement about the way news is presented on the channel.
I wonder if news channels are at war of one another to protect the reputation of their country and government?
Aljazeera has been particularly critisised for the way it has produced news on the war in Gaza. I wonder how the British public would respond to such images on the news. The BBC’s ‘no blood’ policy may have played a huge part in the ignorance of the British public.
Analysts suggested that because these images were seen all around the world, they played an important role in influencing the people to protest by the tens of thousands, burn effigies and Israeli flags and demand action from their governments. The core controversial subject of Aljazeera is broadcasting of harsh, brutal and disturbing images of war and terrorism that western audiences are shunned from. In the view of the channel itself, these images portray ‘real news’, however in some western views, it is seen as biased, brain washing and inappropriate. The channel receives constant pressures from the west to change the production style and intensity of the imagery, and there is continuous disagreement about the way news is presented on the channel.
I wonder if news channels are at war of one another to protect the reputation of their country and government?
Al-Jazeera have always been outlined for the way the portray news. They gained notorious popularity over the War in Iraq, for providing alternative news, as oppose to many western sources, which seemingly had their own agenda, namely to side with west and against the 'terrorism' of the middle east. This brutal fashion in which Aljazeera conducts journalism, is shocking in the west but in the middle east it is very common. The conflict in Palestine has often fed Aljazeera with enough horrofic images, for them to conduct their own horror movie. So citizens in the middle east, most likely would not be affected. Incedently, the beheadings in Iraq which were recorded and posted on the internet, along with the filiming of Saddam Hussein's execution are another exmaple of the style of journailism and PR that occurs in the Middle east. I would certainly agree ignorance definatly breeds bliss, surely if these images where broadcast like those of the burning monk in Vietnam, the West would be engulfed in protest and uproar about the ethics and practice of war.
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