While the Germans are still processing their own Guilt and learn this at school, the divide between the political class and the public discourse are growing. Germany is tightening up its laws related to what they call antisemitism and antiterrorism law, in addition to brutally suppressing and banning pro-Palestine demonstration and threatening with deportation to those who shows support to the resistance actions. As we are in 34 day of Israeli aggression on Gaza city in occupied Palestine, the trending #standwithpalestine hashtag on TikTok has over 1.4 billion views until now and it is expected to rise in the upcoming
Category: News Literacy
Intellectual autonomy and news literacy
Do not be fooled by what you see on the first pages or the top results when you use the centralized search engine looking for unbiased media outlets. Even you will find customized articles and blogs’ posts about who are the unbiased media or the neutral worldwide, too often legacy media outlet being reinforced over and over as the ultimate and only source for news and for shaping and often dictating our views around the local reality and world news. Which is also typical when you turn on the satellite, cable, or subscription-based TV, most probably you will get all
The atrocity of the Israeli aggression against Gaza
The images we are seeing on our screens of the current ongoing aggression against people in Gaza by the Israeli occupation military force will be printed in our memory for a long time. Unfiltered images of dead children, women and elderly being barely retrieved from under the rubble that appears directly on the live stream and posting are impacting larger segments of audiences around the world. Seeing on screens, the magnitude of the Israeli warfare, airstrikes and heavy bombardments that is continuing to its 28th day. The 9000 massacred civilians in what is being labelled as holocaust-genocide of the Israeli
What is happening in the world and how is it being covered?
The last semester of 2021 has been dramatic in terms of humanitarian crises. Countries like Lebanon, Afghanistan, Algeria, Haiti, Turkey, Greece and Palestine have been struggling with several different issues that are jeopardizing the security of their citizens but the coverage of these events is being systematically under- or over-reported depending on the countries where the information is coming from (e.g. western/eastern countries, democracies/autocracies, etc.) which ultimately shapes our understanding of these incidents (1). In democracies, although we typically see a higher degree of media freedom when it comes to government influence, it is also possible to observe a set
Community Radio, a tool to reduce inequalities and pursue social justice
Before the advent of television and then on the internet, the first mass communication system was the radio. The first mass-media that lives until today because of its unique characteristics advent of new technologies and integrated with them. A voice through the air is not invading as it can fit in our rooms without interrupting other possible activities. But, it can immediately catch our attention when we hear a particular topic or song. Radio was the first medium to give the news to the citizens, in particular during the wars time. Coming to be a social ritual and a powerful divulgation