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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
I agree with some of your points but not others. As I said before I'm aware of the media exaggerating (i.e. spinning) to SELL a story (as opposed to advancing an agenda). But saying that all the Western media is linked is where you show your naiveity. At least it is if you are implying that it has some sort of collaborative conscious political agenda. As I said before.... too many people would know about it. To many people that are otherwise in COMPETITION with each other.
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Who are these too many people? I haven't seen a single Western type of news media in competition with each other for years. In fact its even easier now to use each others stories and news clips from channel to channel, country to country.
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With your Israeli soldier example. I'm sorry but as a student who is also stuying International politics (as well as Japanese) and relations who has to keep up to date on such things and has to monitor the media quite often then I have to say that the example is not the impression I get. I often hear of Palestinian people being killed by the Israeli military about as much as I hear about Israeli soldiers dying. In fact I'm quite sympathetic to the Palestinian plight (however I'm not completely on their side) because of media reports (not to mention that we did a case study once on Israel in my International Relations and Politics class, which by the way is where I learnt how the media worked as Paul11 as a graduate who majored in journalism would confirm.).
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I didn't say you wouldn't hear about it. I said that when an Israeli dies, you see the family crying and the sympathy in the reporters voice. When any number of Palestinians die, there is little, (if any) sympathy and little, (if any) show of the effect on a Palestinian family. This is my experience and anyone else who watches the news here and picks up on these things, which happen often.
I respect the fact that you may have attended a class and thus learned about journalism but that has little to do with the actual practice of journalism which can be seen by plenty of people.
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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
As for your paycheck comment. Frankly the idea that these non-Western journalists are "selling their consciences" to the Western media is quite far-fetched.
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They are as far fetched as your argument against the Chinese media. My point has been that they don't do anything above and beyond what the Western media do. There is just an illusion amongst many people that whatever you get from the Western media is the Gods honest truth.
Also when money is concerned, it isn't at all impossible that people won't bite the hand that feeds it.