Evaluating the extent of each medium covered in class to educate the reader in a specific issue.
Do you read new papers? Listen to radio? Watch TV? All of us do one thing or the other. .
However, the majority of us never consider the fact that what we hear or see might be a .
lie or it might be just a fact that is twisted in such a way that it shows something .
absolutely different. .
For example, if we take a look at a particular issue on, let's say, Israel, we will find that .
most news appears all television stations and most of radio stations will just be bias. For .
example news papers or video stations will make it look like Israeli people will try to .
solve the conflict between them and Palestinians in a peaceful way whereas Palestinians .
will be violent. As a proof, the tape that our class has watched on the conflict between .
Israel and the PLO, we noticed that narrator motioned that Israeli people were protesting .
when Palestinian nation responded with action, such as throwing stones at Israel police .
and army personal. However, if we listen to radio stations, such as 88.4 FM, we will find .
out that there were actually more Palestinians dead than those of Israel in the bombings .
when the conflict was in place. Also the narrator said that Israel was waiting and was .
"taking the beating"" until the last minute when they just could not take anymore. Yet .
again, we see here how the program tries to make Israeli people seem peaceful. So, so far .
we can conclude that we can not trust everything we hear.
Then moving on to television, and one of the most famous stations in America which also .
made its way here, to Canada, CNN. Humans tend to trust big corporations or men with .
power because something "clicks"" in their head automatically and they literally want to .
follow this "leader"" and as a result, they believe everything the "leader"" says. .
Unfortunately there is a fact about CNN that most people do not know about, which is of .
