Media's role in society

 

Media's role in society

From what we watch in TV, the music and radio, the newspapers and magazines we read every day and so on, every type of media has a different goals to achieve and different messages to send . these goals are range from entertaining to educating and its most shown in TV as TV is most entertaining than educating now days , from music to series to movies and competition programs.

Moreover, media is used to inform the society as well, people start their days by listing to the radio in the morning while they are driving to their work places, and conclude their days with watching late night news on TV to inform us what is happing in the world around us . some of news affects as, especially if it was about Murder, persecution and wars between the States. What happened in 11 September, affect American people and Muslims as well, Americans people Accused Muslims were behind the damages as CNN talked about and interviewed them. On the other side, Aljazeera channel, interviewed Arab journalists as well and they said that what happened to US is The result of its policy in some counties around the world .When people watch this kind of news from different channels one is Arabic and other in English, they should understand the different points of views and thoughts between the different cultures and religions.

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Aljzeerah channel is an Arabic news channel with Arabic language. Its almost a household world to millions of people watching coverage of events. When aljazeerah covered 11 September event, he talked about bin laden and wanted to interview him to ask why he did that as they thought the damage was caused by him, aljazeerah went more to bin laden details and focus in finding any information about him.

CNN is American channel covers many news and events all over the world, in 11 September CNN was one of the first channels who covered the news correctly and minute by minute using the banners for breaking news. CNN went to a religion side, they mentioned that American people and the president Bosh said, Islamic terrorist are behind this damages.   



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CNN

On September 11, 2001, CNN break news of what would prove to be the September 11 attacks. In fact, as a result of the large amount of news on that day, CNN began running a news ticker, now standard in most broadcasts. CNN report was like this (September 11: Chronology of terror, 2001) by 8:45 A.M. a hijacked passenger jet, American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston, Massachusetts, crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center, tearing a gaping hole in the building and setting it afire. At 9:03 A.M. a second hijacked airliner, United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston, crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center and explodes. Both buildings are burning. At 9:43 A.M. American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon, sending up a huge plume of smoke. Evacuation begins immediately  

according to /www.pagetutor.com ,On the morning of 11 September in 2001 the United States suffered a brutal terrorist attack. Documented here are the flurry of CNN Breaking News bulletins.

At  8:52am the covered news was: World trade center damaged; unconfirmed reports say a plane has crashed into tower.

At  9:21 am the second plane crashes into World Trade Center. After 2 minute the FBI investigating reports of foul play in World Trade Center plane crashes, according to the Associated Press.

 At 9:32 am the sources tell CNN one of two planes that crashed into World Trade Center was an American Airlines 767. After 10 minute the President Bush calls plane crashes at World Trade Center a terrorist act.

At 1:27 pm what they come of that America under attack that the terrorists struck the United States Tuesday morning in harrowing, widespread attacks that included at least three commercial jet crashes into significant buildings.

 In the first attack, a plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan shortly before 9 a.m., followed by another plane into the second tower about 20 minutes later. So after that the both towers later collapsed. About an hour later, a plane crashed into the Pentagon, part of

which later collapsed. American Airlines told CNN that its lost two planes in "tragic accidents:" Flight 11 from Boston with 81 passengers and 11 crew aboard and Flight 77 from Washington Dulles airport with 58 passengers and six crew aboard. Both planes were en route to Los Angeles. President Bush cancelled an appearance in Florida to return to Washington, calling the crashes "apparent terrorist attacks" and "a national tragedy."

 

Al-Jazeera stations on September 11 2001 attacks

In this video the journalist is saying that  America political issues in different countries in the worlds Faced criticism and opposition, and this leads to have a large number of innocent victims.

As it shown in the breaking news banner every 2 minute they are post a news. Such as that U.S Officials says that what happened in 9/11 attacks is related to Bin laden, A series of attacks aimed at several locations in the United States,closing of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange after reporting of bomb existing , Attacks on the United States lead to the collapse of world market, U.S. President leaves to unknown destination and U.S. National Guard deployed in the city of New York for the maintenance of security



CNN video cover for 11 september

In the start of the video , CNN is presenting its daily news till the breaking news come over and they suddenly changed the news direction to cover 11 September news, they had un confirming report about a plan had crashed the world trade center in Manhattan island in USA .

CNN and Al-Jazeera stations on September 11, 2001 attacks

Media plays an important role, which reaches many places in different parts of the world. The media is any tool used to communicate information from one point to another. Television, radio, newspaper, and tabloids are all considered “the media”. There are many famous international channels that play an  important role in delivering information to the world, and these channels try to mark their presence in Media field such as, Al-Jazeera, CNN, but anyone of you considered Al-Jazeera as a important channel?