The Iraqi media station showed a part of the beginning of the war that no right-wing conservative would probably ever talk about. The USA got mad at them for showing "untruths" and Anti-American propaganda. What they said and showed was the truth, or at least one side of it. When confronted an Al Jezeera reporter asked the American reporter if there was such a thing as objective media. Even the Lieutenant in charge of the Central Command Media Center admitted that he never realized how much he slants things toward this own perspective even when strictly told to report nothing but the facts.
I am a very naive person but i honestly never realized that truth and media are in such opposition! Where can we look to find the truth? Do we just have to simply sit back and assume our government is doing the right thing because they say they are? I don't want to sound anti-America because I am not. Even the head editor for Al Jezeer said that he will send his children to America for education and he wants them to stay here. This is an amazing place we live in... but it's not perfect and I guess I would argue that it's not as... democratic as I once thought.
Another thought about our "progressive" country. Why is there a list of 29 other countries who have had women as presidents or heads of state and we never had. Argentine elected a female president back in 1974! In 1953 the Chair of the State in Mongolia was a woman and they weren't even the first country! Maybe this is more of an issue in my circle, but people still talk about if they are ready for a woman president or if they would vote for one or not. One of my dreams is to work in Asia and help empower women to have their own businesses and lives and respect themselves, but sometimes I wonder if America doesn't need this even more. I guess this has nothing to do with media and truth, but I got off track on a tangent important to me.
