Refer back to the film Control Room and discuss the problems of covering the Iraq war. What are the areas where bias seems apparent? What challenges does the American and Arab(al jazeera) media face in the covering the war? Why are the images of the wounded and dead not shown on American media? Why would Al Jazeera show these images? What information is missing in the American media about the Iraq War? React to your peers comments, agree or disagree, regarding this issue.
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Some of the challlenges that the arabs and the american had faced that the most of the people had got bombed for the 9/11 event. The reason why the military dont show the wounded people is because most of the time the family's back in america plan stuff for them when they're coming back to america. Al jeeraz showed all of these images because to inform all of the iraq's in case any troops plans to come at them. Everyday their killings go on to search for Sadam and Bin Laden. The information the the americans leave out is the people that are dying about everyday. So most of the information the we recieve is false information.
The iraqi's are starting to leak all information to there country. Everything bad that the americans are doing in iraq is being broadcast. These people in iraq said that if the american's come into are country they will make are country even worse and i think that we are correct. After seeing some of the fotage i am very sickened by the acts that are going on. The reason why they do not show this fotage on american television is because then the american people will see how wrong it is to be in iraq. The reason why Al jazeera would show these images to iraqi's is so that the iraqi's could maybe fight back. The information that is missing is all the people that are dying not just from the iraq's side but the US side. Are troops are being held hostage and probably tortured.
i though tht the movie was very informating and it gives us a look at the real life
I think that the people on the video were going over board because they should understand that Americans are just trying to help them out .By making life better for them to live and make it safer. ~Jade~
In America, all our media was showing were the American soldier casualties to emphasize on the tragedy and make us bias. They show us what they want us to see and tell us what we want to hear. The same thing happened in Iraq. The kid in the video was a prime example of what the media was doing. He said all Americans are scum because that's all he saw on the media. In America we became patriotic because the media made us bias.
The problems between America and Arab's are that they are only showing the worst of each other. The Arab tv shows only show the worst of the American Troops and America is only showing the worst of Iraq troops. I think that the people should see the good and bad of everything, of both troops.
Irag and America are in a war right now that is causing a world wide issue with the media. In Iraq there is an apparent seen issue with it because they are not afraid to air what they want on their channels. They will show the anything even dead bodies of soldiers, but America would never do such a thing because they are afraid to show American people the truth. They want us to keep in our heads that America is perfect and they have no problems and the truth is that they do have problems. Iraq has people like Al Jazeera who will tell the truth and show those images because they believe that the people deserve to know the truth and they want people to see just how bad it is. Everyday that they go and cover the news they are endangering their lives. At any moment they can be shot or bombed and they will be dead just so that they can get the news. America I believe don't have it as hard as them because they leave out the truth and the things that would get Americans talking about their government and such.
The iraqi's are starting to get all information to there country. Every last thing that we do bad in there country, it's broadcast.
Seeing somethings we did over their really turn my stomach.all we americans dont know this but if we did we will know that it's wrong. Al jazeera showed these images to iraqi's is so that the iraqi's would probably fight back. this war is killing a lot of people on both sides and the iraq is hold our troops hostage.
the area that seems bias is baghdad. The americans dont show the bad stuff that happens to the arabs and the arabs dont show the bad that happens to the american soldiers.
Some of the challenges that the Americans and Arabs have faced are that the Arabs are blaming the U.S. soldiers personally for all of the damage that has occured when they were just following orders. The Arab's homes are being destroyed and they ar now left with nothing. In the video we watched in class there was a woman blaming President Bush for the damage. I would also blame his because as the president of the U.S. he is probably the most powerful person on the world. There are people dying because of the war in Iraq and all Bush does is keep sending in more soldiers to Iraq whenever a soldier is killed. The president should realize that the more soldiers he chooses to put in Iraq the more soldiers are going to die.
In the video we saw today in class there were many biases, the risen why I say this is because many of the news stations have to change an morph what they say so that appeals to their audiences. On the American stations they can only show so much, but with in that they can only show things that are bloody, and so on. The reason why the American stations can not show bloody images and clips is because America wouldn’t like to see that on their TV’s. On the Iraq stations they can show a little bit more but what they do show is only the bad. In both if these groups they tend to show more of the bad than the good, so that there audience can be on their side.
I also agree with what marquis is saying, because it is true that if people saw what was going on in Iraq they wouldn’t want us to be there. They would see that there are tons of bad things that are happening because of our troops. In the film there where about 4 bombs or so that where dropped and they killed and injured so many people. After this happened you get to see all the homes that we are destroying and all the angry people cursing America (president bush).
The reason why Americans are killing all these people are because they are looking for one person. all the killings in Arab(al jazeera)are because they are looking to find one person they told everyone who lives there that they need to leave and they didnt so it is not there fault . The reason why the americans do not show the dead people and eveyone else is because they think it is rong to show stuff like that also the americans feel when they are showing all there woonded people they are not showing what they are doing to us they are just as bad and they are taking our soilders just as much as we are taking theres.
I think that this country needs to take a whole different way of going about looking for this one person knowing that they have killed and hurt more them hundred people and they just keep going on there way with all the killing and damage to their country just because we're looking for one person and if we can't find him they will keep doing the same as now. Then the newspapers and reporters just put all of the bodies on tv and newspapers and they don't care about how the family feels and they don't care that they did that. They just put all the pain back into the homes when they do things like showing what happened to that person to see what they look like and to see how they die I wouldn't be able to handle it and I don't like they can.
Elysee Gresham
Some challenged that Al Jazeera(Arabs) and Americans faced in the war were the disagreements on why America was in Iraq in the first place. America says that they're there to stop Sadaam Hussein from giving weapons of mass destruction to Bin Laden. Arabs think its for no reason at all; there is no purpose and America is just building purposes as time increases. Another issue they face is how many people are dying or being held hostage from both sides.
The Iraq's are only saying the bad things about America, whih is wrong.Al Jeerez is showing thses pictures just to inform and show the Iraq's what is soon to come.And if they show us the real things then they would get in trouble because they know that the treatment that they are giving their people is wrong.
-Phylicia Lilly
the war is the cause of a lot of people dying, the people are killing there families.Another thing is that when some people families die and they do not hear about it. THis is wrong because how would you feel if one of your families died and you never knew, i bet it would be very hjard on you so how do you think it would be on the other people.Al Jazeera persuade these things because it displays how we treat our people and that causes the other people to not like the Americans.
The things that are very obvious during this war are the killing. It is not likely that people are going to war and not dying. I believe that if Iraq does not want to be "free" then we should stay out of it and let Iraq be "slaves" or whatever they want to be it is not our problem to be involved in. The Al Jazeera shows these images to make a point and if they are trying to let American soldiers peak on their show i don't think they are trying to make it sound as if it is our fault i beleive that that they are just trying to get the news and show what is going on and what is going on with our world today. I believe this has nothing to do with showing who is right or wrong.
Q: What are the areas where bias seems apparent? What challenges does the American and Arab(al jazeera) media face in the covering the war? Why are the images of the wounded and dead not shown on American media? Why would Al Jazeera show these images? What information is missing in the American media about the Iraq War?
A: Bias seems apparent with the Iraqi people and administraters. They seem to think that America is not the best country. Throughout the whole film only two people stuck up for our country. One man said that he thinks that we as American people will stop the armies and Bush. Another man says that he doesn't have a problem coming to America and obtaining the American dream, he also said he has plans for his children and Iraq isn't the place for his children to live. The solidiers are facing so much torture and they are being pursued as the bad guys in this war. The Arab community shows American bombs being fired and American soldiers mistreating the Arabian people. Yet they don't show the way Iraqi soldiers take people and children out of their homes just to be drafted into an unwanted war. Also it seems that the media only has people who are Iraqi on television when they are getting hurt, threatened or wounded. The difference between both of us in the war is that the Iraqi people are holding American soldiers captive and it isn't right for that to be happening. This is what I feel about the war.
The Americans don't show all of the images because they dont want you to feel sympathetic for the Iraqis. Before I watched this video i never realized everything that was happening with the war. I've never seen pictures of ow the war affects the people in Iraq I only saw the pictures of americn soldiers that had been killed by Iraqis or that were missing. When I watched this video it upset me to see the American soldiers go into the houses and yell at the people inside. there was one point in the video where they were standing in a house and a woman walked through a doorway and saw the soldiers standing there with guns and she dropped to her knees and tried to hide you could tell by the look on her face that she was scared to death. the americans show pictures of the american soldiers that have been killed or they talk about bombs that Iraqis ave used to kill americans. Anyone dying on either side is a human being they all matter and each of them are someone's family.Emily Thompson
The Americans don't show all of the images because they dont want you to feel sympathetic for the Iraqis. Before I watched this video i never realized everything that was happening with the war. I've never seen pictures of ow the war affects the people in Iraq I only saw the pictures of americn soldiers that had been killed by Iraqis or that were missing. When I watched this video it upset me to see the American soldiers go into the houses and yell at the people inside. there was one point in the video where they were standing in a house and a woman walked through a doorway and saw the soldiers standing there with guns and she dropped to her knees and tried to hide you could tell by the look on her face that she was scared to death. the americans show pictures of the american soldiers that have been killed or they talk about bombs that Iraqis ave used to kill americans. Anyone dying on either side is a human being they all matter and each of them are someone's family.Emily Thompson
First off, Latia isn't the best I AM!!! RENEE THAT'S WHY I PUT THE BEST BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I AM and Jaquan isn't the biggest boss.. he's just big in general...
Now, talking about the challenges that America has with Arab is a lot. befoor I talk about the challenges I just wanted to say something. I noticed that America seems to have problems over the world do you guys wonder why? Well, I'm going to tell you. Bush and his company know that their are countries that are starving and homeless and everything but they don't seem to do anything about it. Now, I think {going back to the schema I did today} America should show the images of the dead people dying in foreign countries just like Arab. I think it's just wrong and someone should really do something about it.
the challenges faced are the people dying and the fact that what people are saying and finding are getting confused and peoples words are getting twisted. there are too many misunderstandings because of the media bias. Americans do not show pictures of the dead of the war because the media and the governemt are trying to show that we are doing good thinggs instead of the oposite. i think Al Jazeera is right for showing both dead americans and dead iraqis. dispite their pain, they are trying to show both sides of t he story. the american media is too involved with the government to trust.
One area of where a bias seems apparent is when the network doesn’t show any pictures of the Iraqi military crimes. An example is when the soldier holds the families in hostage. An American reporter believes these pictures are vital because they do not yet exist but he does think that these atrocities are in fact happening. For people like Josh Rushing, he admits that it was harder for him to see the faces of injured U.S. troops than the pictures of the wounded and dead of Iraq. These pictures are not being shown on American media because those pictures would be too hard for Americans to see especially those who have friends and family in the war. And it also wouldn’t be fair to see that they know people that are suffering in the war. The pictures of American soldiers are being put on air by Al Jazeera and they clearly show men dead and wounded, but I think the Arabs do that to try and send some sort of signal for the Americans that do see the news while over sea.
I think that the obvious areas where bias seems to be at the most is to me in the media. As shown in the movie America does not like to give people very much detail on what they are doing but does not have a problem with telling what the Arabs {Al Jazeera} have done. the american media faces the challenge of getting stories that the military or government does not want to share. The Arabs have the challenge of being heard. They obviously don't like the Americans or Bush and they just want someone to rally listen to them. I think the images of soliders either dead or hurt are not shown for one it will onlyt bring more people to dislike the war and second what the people don't know won't hurt them , they want to basically keep us in the dark about things we should be able to know. I think Al Jazeera would show these pictures because these people are not dumb they see what is going on ever time they step out of there houses, there media has nothing to hide because these people are living it. What is missing is showing the american people what is going on over in Iraq, not teling future plans for what is going to be happening and also the big question when are we goung to be leaving Iraq.
The iraqi's are starting to leak all information to there country. Everything bad that the americans are doing in iraq is being broadcast. These people in iraq said that if the american's come into are country they will make are country even worse and i think that we are correct. After seeing some of the fotage i am very sickened by the acts that are going on. The reason why they do not show this fotage on american television is because then the american people will see how wrong it is to be in iraq. The reason why Al jazeera would show these images to iraqi's is so that the iraqi's could maybe fight back. The information that is missing is all the people that are dying not just from the iraq's side but the US side. Are troops are being held hostage and probably tortured
-kevin c
the challenges of covering the war on iraq is that america does not show all the images they should. if a house is bombed, it is excluded from news because it makes america look bad to the world. but al jazeera shows both sides more, but gets nitty-gritty with america like its trying to break it apart from the world.
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