Saddam & Our Biases.
Just found these interesting. These are the banners used on the main site of each of these news sites.
The World Is Mine
When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be ... I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. - Wendell Berry
joe kennedy
Saturday, 30. December 2006 um 3:36 am Uhr
with all due respect, CNN’s headline is “Hussein Hanged”… so it’s practically the same.
if i say “with all due respect,” you can’t get mad at me, no matter what i say.
dave
Saturday, 30. December 2006 um 10:26 am Uhr
so it’s practically the same.
Not really…
There is a big difference between giving a headline saying, “Hussein Hanged” and plastering “HANGED!” across the image of the man.
Kristen
Saturday, 30. December 2006 um 10:41 am Uhr
i just looked at cnn.com and the first page you come to us a picture of him with a noose around his neck.
Josh
Saturday, 30. December 2006 um 12:23 pm Uhr
they must have changed it.
i just thought it was funny that fox represented their biases with what felt like a celebratory graphic that he was getting hanged. showing a portrait of saddam who looked deranged.
cnn showed their biases by using a picture of saddam dignified in a suit and put the date of his birth and death. like john lenin or gerald ford had just died.
i personally liked how npr showed the many faces and sides of Saddam. showing how much he morphed and evolved depending on what his agenda was. showing a picture of him when the US put him in power to subvert Iran was a very helpful reminder of how our politics in the present create problems in the future.