Graduates and the Media
By kopano Ramashala
Graduates and the media often than not, have an obligation to meet. Their obligation is amongst others to serve and inform the public, to be a mouth piece for parties concern in a particular event or crisis, and mostly to be agents of change. Yes to be seen as agents of constructive change.
Allow me to refer in this topic to America’s invasion on Iraq as my example in demonstrating and protesting my point. As conspiracy theorists ague that America’s economy was sinking and hiding for disaster, America’s state head George W. Bush had to make a plan to try to safe his country from immediate disaster, explains one conspiracy theorist. President Bush saw an opportunity of invading Iraq and took the American media and challenged Iraq. In so doing he used the media and its personnel to change the mind sets of ordinary American citizens, to make them to believe him.
Through the media Bush created an illusion that Iraqis together with the Alkhaid people were Americas enemies and that they were out to destroy their way of living and must be stopped in their tracks. He accused Iraqis head of state of many things, amongst others, that he had weapons of mass destruction and went on and to say that he was a dictator and an oppressor. He changed people’s minds through the media.
As time went on, he attacked Iraq in a bid to free the Iraqis from the regime of Saddam Hussein. He created a mutual consent and made people to believe him.
During the war in Iraq, America experienced shortage of soldiers and more were needed. Media played a role in recruiting people from all over America. They were made to believe that they were out to fight the enemy.
But Michael Moore an American journalist went out his way to find out the truth behind the Iraqi war. He was determined to help people to understand what really the war was about. He covered all angles of the war and brought about change in peoples thinking. He wanted to bring about change in peoples lives. And he successfully did so. People started realising that President Bush was pushing a hidden propaganda in the American media. Michael Moore change people’s mind set and brought about sense to American people and the world in general. Today he is respected and regarded as an agent of change. In his bid of changing people’s minds, Moore also touched on what I have mentioned earlier, that graduates of the media have an obligation to meet. He met those obligations. He served and informed the public and was a mouth piece for both American people and Iraqi s. He asked questions that an ordinary person on the street longs to ask but does not have a platform to do so. He gave people a chance to ask their questions and tell their side of the story. But for most, he made people aware of what was happening and made them to protest against the decision of President Bush of attacking Iraq.
If institutions of higher learning produce people like Michael Moore, the world would be the safest place. And people’s views would be hard and people in turn would be informed and their needs would also be catered for. Graduates and the media is a tool created to bring about awareness and change and to reflect the real heroes and heroines than reflecting enemies, as opposed to Bush’s use of the media to reflect Iraq as its enemies.
By kopano Ramashala
Graduates and the media often than not, have an obligation to meet. Their obligation is amongst others to serve and inform the public, to be a mouth piece for parties concern in a particular event or crisis, and mostly to be agents of change. Yes to be seen as agents of constructive change.
Allow me to refer in this topic to America’s invasion on Iraq as my example in demonstrating and protesting my point. As conspiracy theorists ague that America’s economy was sinking and hiding for disaster, America’s state head George W. Bush had to make a plan to try to safe his country from immediate disaster, explains one conspiracy theorist. President Bush saw an opportunity of invading Iraq and took the American media and challenged Iraq. In so doing he used the media and its personnel to change the mind sets of ordinary American citizens, to make them to believe him.
Through the media Bush created an illusion that Iraqis together with the Alkhaid people were Americas enemies and that they were out to destroy their way of living and must be stopped in their tracks. He accused Iraqis head of state of many things, amongst others, that he had weapons of mass destruction and went on and to say that he was a dictator and an oppressor. He changed people’s minds through the media.
As time went on, he attacked Iraq in a bid to free the Iraqis from the regime of Saddam Hussein. He created a mutual consent and made people to believe him.
During the war in Iraq, America experienced shortage of soldiers and more were needed. Media played a role in recruiting people from all over America. They were made to believe that they were out to fight the enemy.
But Michael Moore an American journalist went out his way to find out the truth behind the Iraqi war. He was determined to help people to understand what really the war was about. He covered all angles of the war and brought about change in peoples thinking. He wanted to bring about change in peoples lives. And he successfully did so. People started realising that President Bush was pushing a hidden propaganda in the American media. Michael Moore change people’s mind set and brought about sense to American people and the world in general. Today he is respected and regarded as an agent of change. In his bid of changing people’s minds, Moore also touched on what I have mentioned earlier, that graduates of the media have an obligation to meet. He met those obligations. He served and informed the public and was a mouth piece for both American people and Iraqi s. He asked questions that an ordinary person on the street longs to ask but does not have a platform to do so. He gave people a chance to ask their questions and tell their side of the story. But for most, he made people aware of what was happening and made them to protest against the decision of President Bush of attacking Iraq.
If institutions of higher learning produce people like Michael Moore, the world would be the safest place. And people’s views would be hard and people in turn would be informed and their needs would also be catered for. Graduates and the media is a tool created to bring about awareness and change and to reflect the real heroes and heroines than reflecting enemies, as opposed to Bush’s use of the media to reflect Iraq as its enemies.
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