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AndrewCaseSecondPaper 8 - 07 Jul 2009 - Main.AndrewCase
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Propaganda, Innocence, and the Law | | | simply the Neutral Point of View Version of Everything We
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- I suppose my view is that there is no such thing as a "Neutral Point of View Version" of really anything at all, and to believe that we can find or create such a thing is hubristic. Wikipedia can be very useful indeed, but will always reflect the interest of the authors, and that interest is simply not, nor can it ever be, neutral. There is no entry on "Londonderry" in the Wikipedia, and searching for Londonderry will send you to "Derry." This decision is steeped in politics and is in no way neutral, nor is it made less so when made by committee. (Nor does it reflect a decision to use the "official" name, since searching for "Myanmar" will send you to "Burma"). Length of article is perhaps not the best measurement of this bias, but it is easy to document. I think understanding that we can never be free of bias is freeing and that believing we can escape it and view something "neutrally" is a shackle. But that, of course, is my bias. More relevant to the paper, however, is the fact that this discussion is tangential at best and displays a sophomoric arrogance on my part to link to myself elsewhere. It will be cut.
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In the period before the 1991 Gulf War, networks were alive with stories of the abuse of the Kurdish minority in northern Iraq. Sadam Hussein was murdering the Kurds, one of many atrocities that television news was pleased to cover. When the war was over and an “autonomous region” was established in Kurdish Iraq, media coverage of the Kurds (still slaughtered wholesale, only now in Turkey instead of Iraq), faded to the back pages of the international sections, when it was presented at all. Most reporting on the Kurdish-Turkish conflict reported that the KLA, freedom fighters against Saddam, were terrorists in Turkey, prompting Steve Tesich to write that “Whether or not your death is newsworthy depends upon who is killing you.” (Arts and Leisure, Tesich). | | | you've set up: I think that's the best direction of revision.
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- I think the first error is more serious than the second. I misunderstood the scope of what we were expected and wrote a response rather than an edit. I'd prefer to actually attempt to edit properly before revising my own essay.
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