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Originally Posted by ivi0nk3y
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.
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.
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.
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First- Do I really have to list them all? I can list Time, BBC, CNN, Sky, The Economist, Fox off the top of my head. However these are just the English speaking ones I'm aware of. Of course you have Germany and France with their own networks as well as Japan (In fact I'm starting to feel that the term "Western media" is inaccurate in this context. I mean it was of course relevant at first in contrast with the Chinese media but as an entity I really don't believe "Western media" exists). Add to that the many local networks and make sure you don't forget about print publications as well as the internet. Yes it may be easier for countries and networks to share reports but the fact is that many of these guys are not only after the story but they are after the exclusive angle, picture, report etc.
Second- Again not the impression I get. Though we can argue about this all day but I feel it is irrelevant. Perhaps you could give me a better example?
Third- Please show me this practice of journalism that you believe I'm not seeing and why you believe this? Really I want to see what I'm missing out on. Because so far you and noodle have produced little to support your argument other than provide me assumptions and reasoning that I simply don't agree with.
Fourth- I have already explained my REASONING why in this instance I believe the Western media over the west. If you don't agree with this then fine. But you haven't really produced reasoning and/or sources that go against that reasoning.