Terri #media260: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Model: "I have been thinking about this for a few years now and after watching the 'Control Room' in class today I was inspired to write about it - ..."
I do agree that there is not a clear answer to the Israeli - Palestinian conflict. Complex problems never have simple solutions. I firmly believe that "simplification" is the hardest need that media and politicians have to deal with. The media and politicians have to simplify their discourse in order to be clear and to reach the non-expert public's attention. What is the result of simplification? People start thinking that Operation Iraqi freedom can be compared to the Israeli - Palestinian conflict, that Palestinian nationalism is moved by religion, and that Iran and Iraq are almost the same country. These simplifications are dangerous because they over-emphasize the distance among factions, possibly creating nonexistent groups and conflicts. Just think about the myth of a conflict between two artificial and erroneous constructs, the "West" and the "Arab/Muslim" world (ex. of a typical simplification: two different entities wrongly associated one to another).
Do you think that media and politicians should also have the duty to somehow educate the public sphere? is "Objectivity" a mirage?
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