There was a time when all people had for news about the world had been main stream media with an occasional word of mouth story thrown in. Things have changed since then with advent of the internet. Now people have that for getting news and views too, at least those who have frequent access to it. There is a huge problem with mainstream media. In authoritarian countries it pushes a colored narrative of ruling powers. In compromised democracies it may just close a media house that opposes a ruler as seems to have happened in Turkey yesterday. In the best of democracies too media is not free of undesirable influences. For example in UK the BBC habitually refers to refugees fleeing violence as migrants and not refugees. This has implications in the way fleeing persons are treated because different international treaties and obligations apply to refugees and migrants. As regards the most recent conflict between Israel and Palestinians around Gaza, where thousands of chil...
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