The+Media+On+Terrorist+Attacks

The Media on Terrorist Attacks
[|Gorgwi]

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. Many people were not aware of the Beirut attack until the Paris attack happened even though the Beirut attack happened before the Paris one. One may not be shocked by this observation because this is a pattern. A pattern that has been going on for years and will probably continue until the end of time. It a method that the media practice which is covering stories they think their audience will like. No, they do not take polls to ensure that their audience will favor a certain story over another; they just assume. They like to make sure they entertain their audience more than inform as they should. It is time for a change