Today, we were divided into two groups. one group was told to research about Israel and Palestine by looking up on the major media (New York Times, Haaretz, etc), and the other for researching it on local media. Then, we became into pairs, who were researching on the different media, major, and local. I became a pair with Yuma. There were huge differences between the incident that the two types of media address, the words each media use, and what kind of impression of the Palestine people they provide to the readers.
When I shared each other's research with Yuma, she told me that she found news about America is lending a huge amount of money to Israel, but I could not find this news in any of the websites I looked up on, which was all a major American Newpaper. The amount of money was incredibly enormous, so of course, this is a news that all media must address. It is strange that many of the media are not writing about that. I was shocked about this, and I felt it is essential to read many types of media and earn information multilaterally. In Haaretz, I was able to find many kinds of article that writes Palestinian badly. These never wrote Israeli people too negatively and had attention to what the Palestinian people did to the Israeli people. Media having a bias leads to all of the population having a bias, and control their perspectives. I would like to not be controlled by that, so I would like to gather information from many types of media in my daily life.
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