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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Unfortunately many Americans get a narrow and inaccurate view of ourselves through that same media, and those in other countries often have exactly the same problem. That same media tends to shape our thinking or ourselves and others, depending on what they show us. For instance, the Somali pirates are either a bunch of $#!*$ attacking innocents who need to be bombed out of existence, or desperate men from a hopelessly poor country who need serious help and aid, depending on whose media you tune in to.
That is always a danger, and it is up to individuals to look further than what the media tries to spoon-feed us, to get the truth.
One of the values of forums like this is to bring different sources of information together, which can help an individual see all sides, and make a more informed decision about a topic.
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True, there is all too often a biased spin on pretty much any reported news in the media. But sometimes, no matter what the spin, the core of the story is just what it is, nothing more, nothing less, right is right, wrong is wrong, white is white and black is black, no matter how you try to shade it.
To comment on the highlighted portion above about the pirates,
both your
either and
or examples are probably correct to one degree or another, but whichever way we may interpret the
cause to be, they're still pirates, committing an act that is illegal throughout the world (if I'm not mistaken.) In
this case "point of view" has little bearing on the reporting of the act itself, and in MY personal view does not give them license to commit these crimes no matter what their excuses may be. No amount of media spin can make them out to be anything less than the criminals they are.
But I guess this is
and a subject for a different thread. Sorry for straying.