Daniel Pearl

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by the American society in its foreign policies of a “holy war” can in fact become hypocritical of itself. Through a Micro Level prospective, a media case study of an Investigative Journalist arouses issues of ethics that make it evident to find the paradox in the so called free world.
Long before September 11th Anti American Terrorists existed all over the world. But on September 11th the United States uncovered a new enemy. President Bush described this new type of enemy as one that America’ has never faced before. Terrorism is growing to become an enemy so difficult to face because the American people need to personify their enemy in order for an Evil to exist. And the man without a face was given one when the United States, shortly after September eleventh, unveiled Osama Bin Laden as the Evil. September 11th displayed the horrors of terrorism on such an enormous scale that 9/11 becomes an abstract to the American Public. The fact that it is hard to connect and personalize with such a disaster makes it an abstract. People in America due to its ethical ideology of individualism find a need to identify with single beings. However, during the September 11th media coverage, a decision to not take pictures of body parts being scooped up was done so in the best interest of the American public. September 11th already being of such great impact in American society, making even the image difficult to bear, proves that shocking and horrifying are not the best way to achieve an impact on the American public. This demands an inevitable need for moral and social responsibility for journalists who are responsible, as public figures, to deliver news in a fair, well prompt, and articulate way which obliges the media because it has such a power, given by the people, on impacting and shaping events that occur. Good vs. Evil is in a paradox of itself because what is Good in America is actually Evil in the eyes of its enemies.
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