Green Years ...

Sunday, December 05, 2004

Small but Effective Media

Blogs are totally small but effective and non-biased media, because they are non-centric. Here I am going to discuss about two examples of that. Almost all Iranian people don’t like to be considered Arabs. I had seen that lots of other nations think that Iran is one of the Arabic countries. Indeed historically Iranians are from Aryan race that made old Persia.

If I am to rank Iranian public’s interest in Arabs compared to Americans, in the scale of 1 for lowest to 5 for highest, I shall say 5 for Americans, and 1 for Arabs.

Issue-1: Clinton was and still is very popular among Iranians. Even Bush’s team – with lots of similarities with hardliners in Iran – has almost the highest popularities among Iranians compared to other nations. There was a
language-based survey done in BBC before US election asking people about in which candidates they favor. Surprisingly it showed that Persian-speaking people are the most favorable nation to Bush (Compared to Arabic, English, Spanish, Russian, Urdu, Hindi, Portuguese and Chinese).

When 9/11 happened, (1) Iranian young people were among the first nations that came to the streets carrying candles in Tehran to show their condolence to Americans. (2) Additionally, on
e Iranian student who was living as immigrant (student visa) in NYC, just left his classes and joined to help needy people around WTC that later brought for him a special thank from the authority. (3) It had been found from the black box of the airplane which was crashed in Pennsylvania on the day of 9/11 that its pilot had a fight with terrorists on not obeying them to lead airplane to Camp David. The pilot was an Iranian-American which was immigrated to the US.

Issue-2: The most recent conflict between Iranian public and Arabs happened around 2 weeks ago about a historic name, Persian Gulf, a body of water located between Iran and Arab countries in the south of Iran. The starting point of that was among weblogs and the news spread out rapidly. The US National Geography Society (NGS) had considered Arabic Gulf as the second name for Persian Gulf in his 8th edition of World Atlas. And even they named some Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf with some Arabic names.

The wave of anti-Arabism started from Iranian blogs and rapidly spread out in the blogosphere. I should say that there are about 200’000 Persian blogs (Iran’s population is about 65 millions) among which 65’000 are actively and regularly updated. In fact it has made Persian as the 3rd language in the web after English and Portuguese. One blogger had suggested a Google bombing for the name Arabian Gulf. Simply go to Google and search for Arabian Gulf. The first link will be
this one , which became the first link by helping Iranian blogs. The page simply says there is no Arabic Gulf and the right name is Persian Gulf and recommends reader to refer to some historic books.

These two issues are just small ones about how the reality is different from what media shows us. When I came to the US, there were a lot of my friends whose view was totally changed from thinking me as a terrorist guy to one of the best persons among their friends.Even I remeber somebody once had asked me seriously if I have ever killed anybody!! No kidding! I later found out the Michael Moore’s
TV nation is really a good and simple answer to all this.

The helpful thing about blogs is that they provide a space to prevent the deviated- and biased- media.

8 Comments:

At 11:37 AM, Blogger Ottawa Dude said...

The helpful thing about blogs is that they provide a space to prevent the deviated- and biased- media.
--------------------------------------------

I think you are correct about that.

The media is looking for sensation , which sells papers. This is different from truth.

Only a media where the writers are doing it as a hobby and not getting paid for it are going to be able to "Do The Truth Thing" , everyone else is automatically biased by wanted that paycheck , so there's always someone's toes you don't step on , and always what's popular and whats not ...

 
At 11:58 AM, Blogger Green Mind said...

That is one reason, but even every blogger, based on his background has some bias in his mind. The point is that the whole blogosphere , because of equal opportunity for every person, will make the whole blogosphere system the least biased system compared to other medias.

 
At 12:29 AM, Blogger abdul vahid v said...

hai friend,
I read your serious postings about the blogging media. I do want to share with you some other blog thoughts further.

I am mass communication and journalism student from india, and plans to do my academic research on the BLOGGING MEDIA.....

i think you will kindly get ready to sare toughts with me. Please visit my blog and take part in a SURVEY by me on the Effectiveness of blogging...........

thanx....xxx

 
At 5:21 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great story you got here. I'd like to read a bit more concerning this matter. Thank you for posting this information.
Sexy Lady
Female escorts

 
At 11:03 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

 Online oyun tanıtımı  hilesi  knight koxp pvp

güvercin  forum

 
At 5:32 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Aşçı Forum

Aşçı İş Arayanlar

Aşçı Arayanlar

Yerli Yemek Tarifleri

Aşçı Okulları

Dünya Global Mutfak

Profesyonel Yemek Malzemeleri



Profesyonel Sos çeşitleri


Tatlı Pasta Çeşitleri


Resturant Kurulumu


Yemek Üzerine İş yeri Kurulumu


Profesyonel Mutfak Malzemeleri



pvpserverler

 
At 4:44 PM, Blogger serkan said...

thanks for all information

bağcılar profilo servisi
bayrampaşa profilo servisi
bakırköy profilo servisi
avcılar ariston servisi
bağcılar ariston servisi
bahçelievler ariston servisi
bayrampaşa ariston servisi
beylikdüzü ariston servisi

 
At 4:27 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Online Hack



Sinema Burda

 

Post a Comment

<< Home