This week I've had to think about a topic for my Religion and Globalization class for our Media Analysis paper, where we analyze the media's view on a news story related to religion. I decided to follow the riots in Egypt across several different news sources, both foreign and domestic, to see how the media treats events like these.
Just looking at a few articles I've noticed that the news source is extremely important in the how the article is presented. Sources closer to the event, such as Al-Jazeera, seem more objective and sympathetic to the rioters in this case, while sources farther away (especially in the US) are, in my opinion, often much harsher against the rioters. While I don't think this is due to ignorance of the issues at hand, as I would hope journalists would be educated on the topic, I do think it is because of the lack of understanding of the situation. I feel as if journalists took the time to research some of the backstory to these riots and demonstrations, as we are in this class, they would have a better understanding of them.
Just looking at a few articles I've noticed that the news source is extremely important in the how the article is presented. Sources closer to the event, such as Al-Jazeera, seem more objective and sympathetic to the rioters in this case, while sources farther away (especially in the US) are, in my opinion, often much harsher against the rioters. While I don't think this is due to ignorance of the issues at hand, as I would hope journalists would be educated on the topic, I do think it is because of the lack of understanding of the situation. I feel as if journalists took the time to research some of the backstory to these riots and demonstrations, as we are in this class, they would have a better understanding of them.
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