Minimal
stressed for motivation and achievement2003-04-09
“The images they choose, and choose to ignore”
I don’t know about you, but watching the news tonight, I couldn’t help but wonder how one-sided a view I was getting. Where were all of the Iraqis that were still loyal to Saddam Hussein? Were the pictures of celebration I saw really representative of a significant part of Baghdad, let alone Iraq as a whole? Would the images and emotions have been as played up if the US troops hadn’t offered to demolish (vandalise?) that statue? As has so often been the case in this conflict, Al Jazeera offers a sense of balance so noticeably lacking in much of our own media.
Update: since posting this, I’ve been advised that Al Jazeera is somewhat less than balanced. I can only comment on what I’ve read online and most of what I’ve seen has been of the same kind of standard as UK broadsheets. I’ll leave a discussion of the TV channel to someone else.
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