How media makes Australian Muslim look bad

[*Mahzala*]

Ask me. It never annoyed me, I knew I had to live with it, with ignorance, unnacceptance and racism. Recently though, I am becoming so conscious, it is annoying me. And even worse, I am in the same field - the media, with the same people. Some people like to tell me it's Jihad. I just laugh at them.

I love Media Watch. It is one of the best programmes you will come across on television. Hats of to them.

[*Mahzala*]

You didn't understand my post. When I say I am in the same field with those people, I mean I have to go into the newsroom, everyday, with a big heart. Becoming consious, more and more of the fact that these people will always come at me with a smile, but, behind my back, I know what happens. I don't consider things 'coincidences' anymore, as they like to make it seem. It is deliberate, rude and unfair. From walking out to get the mail, to driving, to uni classes, to a doctor's visit - it is all the same. One in a million, yeah, will be different. As much as I don't like to complain about this stuff, nowadays, I just want to pour my heart out about it. It gets to you at on point.

As for Media Watch, yes, I will always say it is a good programme.

(Oh and typo in my last post - off*)

[*Mahzala*]

You see Shlombay, media coverage is centered on many frameworks, models and theories. To answer your question, touching on those is necessary. For now, however, all I will say is that the media's role is a mere medium between public events and public awareness. The basis of any news report is whether it serves the public interest. Now, what is in the public interest and what the public is interested in are two very different things, and this concept is quickly misunderstood by those who implement it. Not every reporter abides by a code of ethics, as not every reporter/journalist is a member of an ethical alliance, so as viewers/readers, we should remember that bias and negativity is bound to kick in. While the media's role is to be objective in their coverage, and not to bring in any opinions, stereotypes etc, be it in articles, TV reports or even a photograph, you will not always get this.

As for this incident, I feel, it is the same as publishing a photograph of an Aboriginal in torn clothes, walking the dirty streets of a Melbourne suburb. That photograph does nothing but promote negative stereotypes. This clip, clearly, shows a lot of ignorance and disregard for an individuals right to basic things like respect and privacy. The camera man is ovestepping the mark, capturing the subject when he is vulnerable, and clearly he is taking advantage of it. Quite frankly, I think that is ridiculous and rude. So yes, the camera man, in this case, has incited the Arab man to react in the way he did. He should have listened to his request, saying please twenty-five times, and not shoved the camera in his face repeatedly. At the end, what is you hear F*****g terrorist. How irrelevant and immature. Swearing itself shows how defenceless the camera man was ... irritated with others, and/or himself?

Pathetic.