Media and the War in the Middle East

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This paper states that everyday television reporting of the war in the Middle East seems inconsistent with the logic of television's informative-realistic effect because, it seems as if the reports produce fiction and the escalation of horrors transforms fact into fiction. The author believes that the war is not only changing the perception of the media as such but also the perception of society; television is not a mirror of society, but society is a mirror of television. The paper explains that the web seems to offer a global reference resource but it presents many problems of credibility, reliability, bias, timeliness and comprehensiveness.

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"Turning on the television means establishing a connection with the place of broadcasting and being literally and continually present at the birth of the picture. The television picture materializes because of a short circuit between the place of transmission and the place of reception. But due to the speed of transmission of the electronic signal, the television picture is practically simultaneous and we do not notice a delay in time. As a result, we are able to establish a physical contact with one of the most traumatic events of our time, the situation in Iraq. The individual viewing the television experiences events as though they were happening presently and in close location. This is the case even if the events are thousands of miles away, occurring at a different time and in a different place."

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