09/06 readings

            After looking at two readings regarding how Brazilian and Chinese respectively viewed Iraqi war, I found both authors’ voices very cynical. Brazilians were especially judging how American government was extremely selfish going against one country probably because of their desire to dominate oil reservation in Iraq. Also, another standpoint of Brazilians after watching news channel on the television was impression on their strong weaponry. The author described how Brazilian looked at the Iraqi war with one word, bully. It was an indirect way but reasonable way of looking at the situation even against United Nations’ opinion. America was being significantly stubborn and arrogant about their ability and they proved it with the war. America wanted to be always distant with other countries because they were afraid they would not be number one anymore. Additionally, author also emphasized how important it is to one country to choose the right president. The author believed that it was not the most intelligent idea for George W. Bush to be completely go on their own way when Brazil was on their way of becoming economically and politically more stabilized, which I completely agree with. George W. Bush did not have comprehensive idea of amalgamating countries all over the world but just thinking in a limited picture. However he succeeded in making other countries over America, he was not aware that he could have been closer with countries that wanted to be friends with America.

            After reading “The Chinese Watching the Iraqi War with Shock and Awe-As a spectacular Game,” I realized how lacking Chinese was with their media resources. A lot of media sources they received even at the point when the war broke out were limited and filtered. If there is one resource people can reach, the media has all the power to control what others believe. However, another media evolution changed their journalism. Other international media all tried to get into Chinese media channels that made Chinese media more awake with their competition. Chinese media realized that they cannot make their citizens to keep watching their channel with lacking and biased information. I realized how important media competition is. Think about it. If there is only one newspaper, we will definitely depend on the one and only newspaper we can obtain. However, when there are lots of newspaper companies that want more and more readers, they will try to ask what the readers want and that is when the democratic media comes out. Chinese national media finally realized that they could not always get the picture footage from the West. China feared that America had such strong arsenal through watching the Iraqi war through their televisions. Media is a way of learning about foreign countries and educating your citizens about outside of their own well as well. It is important for China to keep offering the country with precious and invaluable information from outside so that their media sources are competent enough to compete with other international sources and does not let other media to dominate their channel with most significant news.