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Television, War And Truth

Television as a media has long been associated with the ambitions of democracy, public information and free speech. The recent television coverage of the two Gulf Wars and the resulting Iraq social and political crisis has raised questions about truth and reality in television – ideas central to a democratic process. The Arabic television broadcaster Al Jazeera has played a significant role in challenging many held social and cultural assumptions about global television broadcasting, by providing a counterpoint view to events in the Middle East. Using both media and text examples, explain your intellectual position in this current debate around television, war and truth.

Democracy, free speech and public information has been associated with television, but after the truth about the Iraq War was revealed by the Arabic television broadcaster Al Jazeera, and documentaries such as Fahrenheit 9/11 and Uncovered: The truth about the Iraq War, the public in general began to question......


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