medias role in religous conflicts
Media’s Role Religious conflicts
2014/04/20
Media plays a vital role in our daily lives as it influences the way we view certain situations that are taking place in the world. Media can be used as a powerful weapon for propagation to the masses or as an essential tool to help us understand. It also helps us to objectively view a current situation. We also need to remember that most media coverage is meant to inform us about current situations while still being objective. This is to avoid offending anybody which is a good thing but we need to be cautious as this could also mean that the media is with-holding vital information that could give us a greater understanding of the situation.
I have chosen the issue of the massacre of the Rohingya Muslims by the Myanmar Buddhists in Burma.
The conflict started when three Muslim men allegedly raped and murdered a Buddhist girl. 3 days later a mob set upon a bus riding through western Myanmar and ten Muslim victims were beaten in a frenzy and then urinated upon before the bus was set ablaze .Even though the accused rapists were already sentenced to jail.
Now that we understand what happened, the reasoned it happened, and how it happened we automatically feel an instinct to choose a side. This is a sign of our dependence on the media. After reading various articles on the matter, the newspaper headlines alone tell me a great deal about the way the article has been written. From
“World Silent as Muslim Massacre Goes On in Myanmar”
“We should either kill all the Kalars in Burma or banish them otherwise Buddhism will cease to exist".
So the headlines we read are all sculptured by the author’s views and so our views are also sculptured. For example I am going to explain two ways in which we can be manipulated by the media with reference to my topic
Use of words
In the last title you see the use of the word “kalars” this word is a racial slur used to slander the Rohingya Muslims. It is used openly in many
2014/04/20
Media plays a vital role in our daily lives as it influences the way we view certain situations that are taking place in the world. Media can be used as a powerful weapon for propagation to the masses or as an essential tool to help us understand. It also helps us to objectively view a current situation. We also need to remember that most media coverage is meant to inform us about current situations while still being objective. This is to avoid offending anybody which is a good thing but we need to be cautious as this could also mean that the media is with-holding vital information that could give us a greater understanding of the situation.
I have chosen the issue of the massacre of the Rohingya Muslims by the Myanmar Buddhists in Burma.
The conflict started when three Muslim men allegedly raped and murdered a Buddhist girl. 3 days later a mob set upon a bus riding through western Myanmar and ten Muslim victims were beaten in a frenzy and then urinated upon before the bus was set ablaze .Even though the accused rapists were already sentenced to jail.
Now that we understand what happened, the reasoned it happened, and how it happened we automatically feel an instinct to choose a side. This is a sign of our dependence on the media. After reading various articles on the matter, the newspaper headlines alone tell me a great deal about the way the article has been written. From
“World Silent as Muslim Massacre Goes On in Myanmar”
“We should either kill all the Kalars in Burma or banish them otherwise Buddhism will cease to exist".
So the headlines we read are all sculptured by the author’s views and so our views are also sculptured. For example I am going to explain two ways in which we can be manipulated by the media with reference to my topic
Use of words
In the last title you see the use of the word “kalars” this word is a racial slur used to slander the Rohingya Muslims. It is used openly in many