Anthro 41a Syrian Protest Modern Issues Essay
Cyrus Sadeghi
Professor Douglas
Anthro 41A
11/07/11
Cyrus Sadeghi
Professor Douglas
Anthro 41A
11/07/11
Increasing Death Toll Among Syrian Protestors The modern media is the principal source from which we hear about international and national issues that are going on in our world today. Although the media is a potent source of information, not everything reported is necessarily credible or factually correct. Many factors such as what region of the world the media source originates from and who is reporting it cause there to be bias in what we read in newspapers, online articles, and what we watch on television. In many countries, for example Iran, the government controls the media, causing certain facts to be left out and others included as the government sees it. How biased the media source is relative to the background of the country reporting it and sometimes even their perception of the other country as a whole. All of these factors ultimately lead to the bias we see in modern historiography. In recent news, newspapers from the United States, Taiwan, Qatar, and Israel report on the recent Syrian anti- government protests, during which seventeen protestors were killed. Each source puts its own twist on the issue, or in other words, its own bias. Often, it is only by comparing news sources from countries both in the same region as Syria and those on completely different continents can we truly pinpoint the bias and differences in how issues are reported.
The bias in the CNN article is focused mainly around the death of Syrian children and civilians as well as the Syrian government torturing the protestors. This article is quick to antagonize the Syrian government for its harsh actions against the anti- government protestors and does not focus on the pro government rallying other than to merely state that it happens. In addition, the CNN article begins by stating the deaths at the anti-government rallying. For
Professor Douglas
Anthro 41A
11/07/11
Cyrus Sadeghi
Professor Douglas
Anthro 41A
11/07/11
Increasing Death Toll Among Syrian Protestors The modern media is the principal source from which we hear about international and national issues that are going on in our world today. Although the media is a potent source of information, not everything reported is necessarily credible or factually correct. Many factors such as what region of the world the media source originates from and who is reporting it cause there to be bias in what we read in newspapers, online articles, and what we watch on television. In many countries, for example Iran, the government controls the media, causing certain facts to be left out and others included as the government sees it. How biased the media source is relative to the background of the country reporting it and sometimes even their perception of the other country as a whole. All of these factors ultimately lead to the bias we see in modern historiography. In recent news, newspapers from the United States, Taiwan, Qatar, and Israel report on the recent Syrian anti- government protests, during which seventeen protestors were killed. Each source puts its own twist on the issue, or in other words, its own bias. Often, it is only by comparing news sources from countries both in the same region as Syria and those on completely different continents can we truly pinpoint the bias and differences in how issues are reported.
The bias in the CNN article is focused mainly around the death of Syrian children and civilians as well as the Syrian government torturing the protestors. This article is quick to antagonize the Syrian government for its harsh actions against the anti- government protestors and does not focus on the pro government rallying other than to merely state that it happens. In addition, the CNN article begins by stating the deaths at the anti-government rallying. For