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2021/5/11

Today Mr. Paterson showed us an article about Israel and Palestine from BBC News. From looking at this article, it taught us about how the media uses language to try to put a particular impression on the viewers. They used languages like “kidnapped the Israeli soldiers”, “detained the Palestinian citizens” for the Israeli soldiers to make an impression that the Palestinians are the “bad guys”. The phrasing that I find most surprising was “swept to power” because even though the Palestinian officials were democratically elected, BBC News used this term to make it look as if the officials are the villans I was also surprised that the mass media was not covering the war crimes that the Israeli government has done but covered how Palestine bombed Israel which had little damage to the country. 

Mr. Paterson also showed us how the big traditional media uses techniques to try to portray a certain type of image. We were shown the front page of the London Evening Standard which was photoshopped to make it seem like there were a lot of people. Photographers use other techniques like zooming in to make an impression that the density of people is high. 

We were also shown what promotors of US presidents do in order to have a better image. The picture of President Bush subconsciously made people think that he has a halo. I’m not Christian so I didn’t feel anything from that picture so I was surprised at how people can be so creative to try to have a better image. I was also surprised by the fact that the landing of the airplane that Bush was “flying” was staged; I couldn’t believe someone can be so desperate to have the image they want to have.

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