News Sources from Different Perspective

There are plenty of news channels or print media that cover the same current affair daily. Unfortunately, with various perspective of the issue, we tend to speculate and become skeptical. Who can we trust now? In class, we were given two news articles by The Guardian and The Australian on the meeting with the new president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani and Australia’s Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop. It is then I realised that even media can have different perspective because we have plenty of broadcast journalists and reporters out there. I learned that we rely heavily reuters or news agencies back in my home country as they are the ones that have reporters everywhere and are reporting back to this company and all broadcast channels go through them. Reuters is an international news agency but for our country, we normally used our local distributor which is Bernama for current affairs and Associated Press (AP) for sports. When we read articles produced by my country’s main newspaper like The Star or New Strait Times we can see the word ‘Bernama’ or ‘Reuters’ after some articles to prove that their source of information was from them.

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For now, I did some comparison between the two articles that were given during class. It was written with completely different perspective. We know from the perspective of what the President of Afghanistan wanted and a direct statement from Australian Foreign Minister.

Afghanistan’s new President has urged the West to stay involved in his country – including militarily – longer than the planned withdrawal date at the end of next year in a meeting with Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop. – The Guardian, 2015

FOREIGN Minister Julie Bishop has made a surprise visit to Afghanistan to meet with Australian military personnel and new Afghan president Ashraf Ghani. -The Australian, 2015

These two articles from different newspaper covered different perspective on the issue. The Guardian had stated that the new President of Afghanistan had urged the Australian military to stay as they had a meeting with the foreign minister, Julie Bishop on this matter. On the other hand, The Australian had stated that Bishop took a surprise trip to Afghanistan to visit the military personnel and new president, Ashraf Ghani.

 

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