Racism In Iraq
I found an article directly relating to the racism in Iraq called “Hypocrisy and Racism of Iraq War: Suicide Bombing Minus the Suicide” by Ray Hanania. At the website:
“On the day the were reporting yet another “assassination” attempt against Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein, the one-sided American news media was soft-balling how three non-embedded journalists had been killed, too…A reporter for Al-Jazeera, the news agency criticized by Americans for alleged “bias,” and two others including one journalist from Reuters, were killed in two separate incidents by what appeared to be American fire…Al-Jazeera accused the United States of intentionally targeting their offices and killing their reporter because the American military doesn’t want the American people to see the extent of their own crimes in killing Iraqi civilians. Al-Jazeera is one of the few network news stations broadcasting images of apparent and alleged American war crimes.”
I found this article hard to read. I was shocked that the American people would go as far as to kill eachother to prevent the news from being valid and brutally honest. We are fighting a war against Iraq and we are beginning to fight a war amongst our selves. It’s pathetic. I am so against how the news doesn’t show the actual footage of what is happeneing in Iraq. Killing the Iraqi civillians is one terrible thing, but why hide the truth just so that the American new stations dont get shut down by angry pro- war American public. What about all of the anti- war supporters in America? I don’t care if my news is “too” critical of the war effort, rather I want to see the progress of my country. This article indicated that the Americans are biased against reporters from the same race. This is an unusual form of racism, but it still has the same effect as one being biased against some one of a different color skin. I have not made the connection with this case and Huckleberry Finn, but I do have one idea. The people in Huck Finn treat Jim as a slave, and treat him the way they do because they are embarrassed of what he would imput into the society as a free man. The Americans in this article are killing other Americans, as they are afraid of the capabilities of the American journalists in Iraq being alive.
I totally agree that the media doesn’t show what’s really happening in Iraq here in the US. In other countries the news is a lot more truthful, but here they try to hide things from us. The article you chose is really interesting, and I think that a way it relates to Huck Finn is that, like in the movie we saw today in class, some people are left in the dark as to how things really are. Some people didn’t know how bad slavery was, for example, because they lived some where else. We don’t really know everything about the war in Iraq because some news is lost from there to here in the US.
Wow, yea that article is moving. Its very true that America is hiding what is really going on in Iraq, which is the worst thing we could possibley be doing because were hiding information from ourselves. Im very aganist the war in Iraq, and the idea that they are lying or hiding information from the public is ridicilious. I think your article relates to Huck Finn because it kind of compares to Iraq, the country we are abusing and making lies about, as a slave, such as Jim.
Hey. I found your article very interesting. I agree that the media does show people only what they want them to see. After all, it’s television in which their goals are to make profit, keep a good image for the country, and increase their viewers. However, this is always a problem because then people are blinded and do not realize what is truly going on like anna said, “some people are left in the dark as to how things really are.”