Religious Justice

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/04/01/afghanistan.html The CBC above article tells the story of the death of twelve people, including eight foreigners, being shot and killed after an Afghan mob the UN office in protest to an American pastor burning the Muslim holy book. The Afghan President Hamid Karzai declared this a "crime against religion", and thus forth the citizens of Afghan through the declaration of judgement decided punishment was necessary. The media content really made me think of how the media itself picks and chooses what it publishes. Within this, I related to the documentary we watched last week, Michael Moore's Bowling For Columbine, which focuses on the media within the US and how it affects the psyche and mentality of its fellow citizens. I remember a part in the film when Moore interview Americans on how safe they keep their home and their precautionary methods. and then by comparison travelled up to Canada and interviewed Canadians on their own as well. Canadians by example, demonstrated far less fear towards the people surrounding them, and took far lesser precautionary methods. This exemplifies how the media, through the spread of propaganda and the selective writing within written media aesthetics such as articles, affects the mentality of the audience in order to create a larger, irrational fear for one's safety. Thus, an almost addiction to the material provided is created, in order to increase "awareness" of one's safety. Finally, this therefore constitutes for a larger audience and larger need for the media provided, which in turn provides an exponential growth in that media's field. So, the media publishes and advocates the production of articles which advise the consumer on rare violent situations such as this, in order to spread and irrational sense of "fear" within the audience and therefore increase their business.