Sunday, April 29, 2007

Media and the influence!!

When I first read the topic to this blog I was unsure of the word polarization so I looked it up. Polarization according to Merriam Webster is a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions. What I understood by the definition is the division of media and mainly television across the world. For example when I was in the United States and I listened to news about the Middle East it’s very normal that they make us “Arabs” look barbaric and vise versa. Its human nature for this to happen but what occurs really is a diverse division between a group of people that change there view towards the world because of media.

A very well known example that we can talk about is 9/11 this is when the media straight away blamed the Arabs although we were not sure it was Arabs that have done this and a division occurred. Shortly after that the London bombings occurred as well and before they even caught the people they blamed the Arabs automatically MEDIA controls people. I believe were all puppets and us humans naturally believe media like it’s a daily routine in our life.

The media has ruined our religion the Muslim religion people didn’t even dare say a word about Muslims or arabs before 9/11 and the whole terrorism issue. I don’t believe some radio stations have values or behavior. One believes it’s disrespectful for channels such as CNN, CNBSC, or BBC to humiliate arabs and blame them for everything while AL jazeera may have some fall downs or flip outs but still manage to stick to news. As I was saying its human nature for one to defend there cultures and views.

Do they encourage us to listen, interact, and understand the “other” judgment? NO! I don’t believe any TV channels encourage every channel has a way of convincing its viewers that they are right.

I have an example for you all: David letterman, Jay leno, and Conan O Brian they are all late night talk hosts but they all have certain viewers and other viewers that watch each chow believe in them and will not change there mind, if one viewer believes in one talk show they wont change there mind!

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