Everyone knows that September 11, 2001 was a horrible day in America. After those attacks we were a distort country, looking for answers. Did TV coverage of the events at hand help with our coping or did they only feed the flames of hatred against people with Arabic decent. News coverage seemed to cover every horrible aspect of the event and every other event that could be related for months, could this have brain washed us in to racist zombies? Television should have a responsibility to the public for fair reporting on racial issues.
             Racism has had a very long history of torment and discrimination. Even though we see ourselves as a united nation we continue to fight with racial issues every day. Television is extremely influencing in this day an age, because of it ability to reach viewers almost everywhere. New coverage focuses on the bad sides of things, because it brings in more viewers. We as a people are more likely to respond to negative news coverage of racial events then we are to respond to positive reporting of racial events.
             After 9/11 many Americans were afraid to fly with Arab people because of all the coverage of terrorism and the attacks. One individual, Bob Rajcoomar, who was an American doctor from Israeli decent was actually held at gun point and made to leave the plane that he was on because many of the passengers thought that he could be a threat (associated press 2002). This sort of discrimination is not looked at as being prejudiced because so many people are afraid of terrorist and feel that it is a needed measure.
             News coverage of all the bombing and war happening over in Israeli has become a background noise to some people because everyday the news covers another terrorist attack the same as yesterday. We have almost become numb to everything happening over in the middle-east because of all the coverage that is given by the media. This slowly brain washes people into the thought p
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