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Media: From the East to the West
- Zuhra Bahman
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As long as I can remember, the BBC World Service (broadcasted from London at 1615 GMT), Voice of America (broadcasted from Washington DC), and Voice of Iran (broadcasted from Tehran) was what we listened to in order to get information about our own city, Mazar, the survivor of two attacks by the infamous Taliban, and my country. ...
At the time media looked like the ultimate power to me. ... The media was reporting what they felt should have happened ignoring the need for accuracy. ...
I got out of Afghanistan in 1998, knowing how being ill informed and unheard I felt, I was determined to use the might of western media to make my country peoples’ and my own voice heard. I then started writing, I wrote for little magazines about young people’s issues, about war, about how I was misrepresented in media. ...
At the beginning I was fascinated by the western media, thinking that it is the ultimate place one can practice their right of freedom of speech. ...
In London I obsessively followed the media coverage of Bush and Blair’s “war on terror”. When Afghans were being fought against in this “war on terror,” the media was going crazy. Millions of westerners were given a crash course on western media version of Islamic Fundamentalism and ethnic conflict in Afghanistan. As the war got to its peak the war between different media outlets also got more furious. ... On the other hand, the Western media such as BBC one of whose reporters claimed to have “liberated” the people of Kabul was using the images of my country people as justification of their government’s war.
As the world media was focusing on Afghanistan, the country itself, in theory, regained its freedom of speech and expression. ...
A Survey of Media
- mary grace alonzo
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The basic idea is that media can be used for both good or for evil is a matter of choice. Media can be used to built and sustain community. ... However, media can also damage community and injure the integral good of persons. Media does this in numerous ways; by alienating people or marginalizing and isolating them; drawing them into perverse communities committed to false, destructive values; creating a mentality of "us" against "them" fostering hostility and conflict between groups and nations; presenting what is base and degrading in a flattering, glamorous life while ignoring what is uplifting and ennobling, spreading misinformation and disinformation, fostering trivialization and banality.
The media is considered the fourth estate of our society, so it wields tremendous power. Its pervading presence – we see, hear, and feel a lot of things which come from the media – is an indication of this. ...
Considering the extent of influence which media exerts on the mass audience, practitioners and students of the media profession are challenged to redefine a certain journalistic practices and attitudes.
Radios tremendous reach and influence has enabled it to remain a potent among the major forms of mass media. ...
What is unique in the media at this day and age is that with the aid of the advanced communications technology, the scope and speed of cultural change is unprecedented in human history and the role of the media is even more prominent and vital. ...
The media has no obligation to report to the government the identities of suspects, convicts or escaped criminals who provide them information. The battle of whether the media practitioner are obliged to identify their sources was fought long ago, and resolved with a resounding “no.”
In United States however, the media has, according the Newsweek essay, become the number one enemy as it begins to be seen as a destructive force in American life. ...
For change, media can give more prominence to technology, trade and industry; it can also create a more positive environment for development-heightening entrepreneurship, the hard work and discipline that we sorely need. ...
One of the characteristics of an increasingly complex media environment is that key competitors that participate in collaboration and partnership will, in my view, be fundamental to the success of any ambitious media organization in the future. But for any organization in media, important new methods of delivery as well as a successful brand depends on the quality of whats being offered. In increasingly saturated media markets, a distinctive brand is likely to become even more important.
All around us, there is media. We see, hear and breathe media. Much of what we know or think come from media. ...
THE MEDIA
The press, television, and radio are vital forces in Pakistans political life.
Approximate Word count = 3824
Approximate Pages = 15.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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