Control room

Control room was a documentary that gave an insight towards the international conflict of Iraq based upon broadcasting groups of media specially Al Jazeera well known media group in the middle east. The broadcast company was criticised by the american government for delivering biased information bout the war in Iraq , as they gave the audience a different perspective about the bush administration that they didn’t want to reveal. As the media group has shown the difference in delivering information depending on the audience that they target hence manipulating the news.

Taking a look at the documentary control room and reflecting upon it I agree with the following proposed statement “Deception is just as bad as telling an outright lie”. Taking a look at the statement it could be viewed that deception might be used in a positive manner yet if you think about it it is still a lie that may lead to affect a person or a whole community in a negative manner. Taking a look at this perspective it could be viewed that  the Iraq war was a reference of direct perception in which the government used propaganda as a form of deceiving their citizens into believing it was a ‘good’ war in order to gain support and allow for the public to agree with its own government.

The information about the situation occurring in Iraq at the moment was all released from the Centcom in which media broadcast.Josh Rushing, had provided bias information regarding the war to several news organizations when interviewing him in Doha. This allowed for the news media to develop and present information on rushing’s perspective in order to show the audience he US the way Bush had perceived or perhaps wished it to be or become. Hence this makes organisations to portray a positive image about the US stance in the war. Although there might biased one sided reports from the spokesman, no one would no because reporters weren’t allowed in the scene or on ground. This leads to cause a gap in information leading to question the credibility of the present ideologies. Before the introduction of Arab news organisations like Al Jazeera the war was only broadcasted from one perspective which is the Us rather than Iraqi perspective. Due to Al Jazeera’s balance of perspectives, the headquarters had been bombarded due to its non-conformation towards the US side/perspective.

Essentially, deception was taken into consideration in this context causing to impact the view of US - Iraq war as it had caused to alter the thoughts of people around the world. Taking a look at it in this context it could be noted that an outright lie is simply as bad as deception because the ideologies and perspectives were change due to media delivered to them. This would potentially lead to disturbance amongst the nation once they understand they have been deceived or lied to. Hence in my opinion I think that governments should place and deliver the information to the public to avoid riots or oppositions.