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Terrorist attacks occur at least 500 times a year, but we have only been informed about 40 percent of them. WHY??? Over 50 percent of our peers are uneducated about the violence that goes on around the world. We are only focusing on our community or something/someone that directly affects us. The media is one of the biggest causes of this phenomenon. They have led us to believe that tragedy only exists in those countries that are similar to us. A terrorist attack can strike at anytime and anywhere just as it did in Brussels, Beirut, and Paris. In each attack, the people of those places were just doing their daily activities when the disaster hit. The media did not view them as the same disaster as they should, so each country could have received the same amount of assistance as the other. Instead, they made it seem as though it was not that important. media type="youtube" key="iG8lPK7RQ2w" width="560" height="315" align="center"

In the video above, a Muslim woman express her frustration on the West. The media has portrayed Muslims as if they are bad human beings, but they are not. Mollie Hemingway, a writer, tells a story of how different media outlets portrayed news in order for it to be more appealing to their audience. Jessica Hamblen also suggested that the media is only trying to benefit themselves. She talks about how people are unable to resist media coverage because of the addicting images they show. In her discussion, she explained how the body reacts while looking at their addictive images. The body tends to receive an adrenaline rush as if they are watching an action movie. The particular action causes the audience to come back to that that new caster. The media outlets plan for this mind-blowing reaction from their audience because it keeps their ratings up.

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References
 * Laing, Aislinn. Nairobi Assault. Digital image. The Telegraph. n.p., 21 Sept. 2013. Web. 25 Apr. 2016.
 * Mumbai Terrorists Attack. Digital image. Right Speak. Bosman, n.d. Web. 25 Apr. 2016.
 * Dear West. Perf. Sanasino Al Yemen. YouTube. Sanasino Al Yemen, 18 Nov. 2015. Web. 25 Apr. 2016.
 * Hamblen, Jessica. "Media Coverage of Traumatic Events: Research on Effects." www.ptsd.va.gov. n.p., 23 Feb. 2016. Web. 04 Apr. 2016.
 * Hemingway, Mollie. "The Bad, Worse, & Ugly: Media Coverage of Planned Parenthood's Organ Harvesting Scandal." The Federalist. Mollie Hemingway, 16 July 2015. Web. 19 Feb. 2016.