Saturday, March 17, 2007

The Execution of Saddam

I am not interested in politics. But talking about saddam, it’s a special case. It’s so sad that you see a big figure in the Arab world get humiliated and degraded in this way. Saddam may have done some bad actions and activities but that don’t give them the right to lower him in front the public, nation and his people. In saddam’s execution period, all media contents were about saddam’s case; they showed saddam as a weak person that don’t belong to a nation; execute him in a day that Muslims suppose to be happy and live peacefully in that day. Media were unfair with saddam, I wished that they didn’t show the pictures and videos of his execution specially in that day because I consider it insulting to all Muslims, no matter what have he done they where not suppose to show his execution in a day that all Muslim celebrate; in a period of time media made saddam a hero but later on he became a zero. Media played a big role in saddam’s reputation where all of us were confused of what to believe. In my opinion, I think that saddam is a hero because that what westerns want us not to believe, and most of Arab people will think like this .This example “the execution of saddam” is one of the examples that show how powerful is media in our world, it’s a field were companies of media get competed with each other to get the latest news no matter what and in some cases some companies don’t care if the news that they’re publishing where from reality or not. So, we’ve better trust and believe a news source that have a well reputation in the world, because not all of what we hear is correct and true.

1 comment:

Bana said...

I respect your opinion, however, i do not agree with you, because as an Iraqi my opinion of Saddam was not affected by the media, it was affected by personal experience. Media today does affect our perceptions of many many things including Saddam, but that does not mean what they are saying is not true. Moreover, about Saddam's execution, it was not taken by any media network, it was taken by people who were actually participating in the execution, despite the fact that we all disagree about the method of carrying out the execution.