Middle East Violence- Media and its priorities

narcisco

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The situation in Israel has become a footnote that is added to every new broadcast in recent years.
I just wonder when the media will say this has happened so many times before that the reporting of it will become obsolete.
As an Australian I am distant from the suffering but most people I know just switch off. I can see the time when not even a nuclear weapon being launched at Israel or Jordan would make the nightly news.

You can see the trends on my own local network. The atrocities in the Middle East are such a daily occurrence that it it slowly being relegated to a footnote and a five second grab at best.
Surely an indication that the West is rightly sick of cultural and religious hatred outside of its shores.
In Australia once the war on Iraq was declared over only brief snippets of news contains the ongoing decimation by degrees of occupying troops.
Apparently several American troops have commited suicide such was their state of despair.

My point being the media is the most singularly unreliable source for truth in the modern age. I am not saying it is a conspiracy theory at all.
The ineptitude and the institutional priorities of media outlets make it so.

The globalisation of the world is the greatest myth of the last 10 years.

Just beware the media as I am sure all you well rounded folks on ultimate metal do.

So endeth the sermon.
 
Well you seem to making a point about the definition of media. Which fundamentally means communication that is mediated, being interpreted and reinterpreted. I mean the game of Chinese Whispers is an obvious cliche to refer to.
My point which is perhaps somewhat obscure is that there are deep structural problems in how we perceive events that are transmitted through visual and print media.
I believe that many of the populace do not perceive these inherent problems and take the information as fact.

That is the problem.
 
I don't follow up news anymore.
Don't know who to believe.