The article discusses the impact of real-time news on public opinion, using examples from past events and the recent Hamas attack in Southern Israel. It highlights the need to rethink news policies and the role of gate-kept sources in shaping public perception.
On the nightly news. That straight-from-the-front-lines perspective helped make the war effort unsustainable on the home front. By contrast, when al-Qaida’s Sept. 11, 2001 attacks landed in our breakfast nooks and break rooms in real time, it had a galvanizing effect. A National Post/Compas poll published a week later found a whopping 81 per cent of Canadians felt we should “join a military alliance against terrorism.”In this light, reaction to Hamas ’s Oct.
7 pogrom in Southern Israel presents a quandary. The terrorists were in many cases pleased to film or be filmed committing their atrocities. But most of us haven’t seen the worst of those images and videos, because the vast majority of us still get our news from gate-kept sources: Mainstream social media sites are as unwelcoming to images of bloodied, decapitated children as legacy-media outlets like this one.Those policies at least need rethinking, it seems to m
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