For this weeks assignment we were to spend at least 2 hours reading/ watching news from different international presses online and report about the different perspectives that each of them have about a certain issue. After looking at a few of the different international presses I decided to focus on the latest U.S. drone attack in Pakistan that supposedly killed 8 Germans that were part of a group called Jihad Islami. All of the international presses had similar facts, but there reactions to it were much different. For example, when I looked at the article that CNN had posted about it they said how this group of people was very dangerous and possibly on the verge of starting a terrorist attack. "The strike comes a day after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI issued a joint bulletin warning that terror attacks were being plotted against targets Europe. European intelligence officials said Monday that a group of jihadists from Germany were at the heart of the plots...." (CNN). While the U.S. viewed the Drone attack as more of necessity countries like Qatar saw it as more of a killing spree.
The Qatar news called it a raid on a mosque, while the U.S. called it a strike on a building holding terrorists. Obviously the Qatar news makes it sound like a tragedy that was uncalled for while the U.S. makes it sound like they were coming to save the day. For example, the Qatar online news had this quote about the attack, "What is raising the alarm bells here is that despite the fact that there may be some evidence to suggest that these people are indeed militants, Germans in this case ... there is, of course, this apprehension that most of the time these strikes are taking place not caring about the civilian casualties." CNN had only mentioned killing potential terrorists/ extremist, while the Qatar news talks about innocent civilians being victims.
When I looked at Russia's online news they had absolutely nothing about the attack and they seemed to have plently of their own problems that were more important.
It amazes me how so many different news outlets can report about the same topic, but yet have completely different views about them. This just goes to show us that what we see in our evening news may not be the truth and that the U.S. media is oblivious to some of real facts, but will neglect to report them because of the negative image it may give the United States.
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