Final Project

I wanna do my final project about something which stroked me when I was in France and That I confirmed since I moved in the US.
Like everybody, I watched the news program almost everyday in France and I've always been very interested about everything going on in the U.S. So I always watched the U.S news as much as possible. After a certain time, I started to notice a slightly difference between what was reported in France and in the US about the same event.
It became pretty obvious when I was in college. Indeed my major was international affair/business; we compared a lot the international news with the national news.
During the same year occurred the invasion in Iraq by the US, and it was a kind of revelation for all my class. When you watched the French news and then the US news about the exact same facts, it was like the reporters were talking about two different affairs!!
Then I started to understand why French people were so against the War and why Americans were pro-War. I guess that if I were American and if all day I always had the US version about the situation in Iraq... I probably would have supported the War as well (... no probably not but I try to understand...).
French news showed different images, different point of view about the War. They criticized all day long the decision of the Bush administration to attack Iraq whereas the US magazines, news programs on TV, newspapers were bombarded by the opposite idea and gave all the elements to justify their attack.

I made the exact conclusion during the conflict Israel/Palestine. The news were driven depending of the Political interests and positions towards these two countries.
It was just clear just in listening to the US news and French news who were politically close with Israel and who were not...

As for me, this particularly event opened my eyes about the power of the Media and how they can manipulate a whole nation.
That's also a reason why I wanted to study Medias to understand and learn how they are organized, who control the Media, who are behind the Media...

The Media should be there to give us the facts and should be more objective. The audience should have their own critical ideas about the facts and make their own opinions.
Unfortunately the Media are such a big part in our life that they control our mind and tell us what to think. It can be pretty damageable sometimes...