Media Ethics Presentation- Sirin Al Masri

Media Ethics and Laws

SIRIN AL MASRI

How ISIS Cover their media and How Media covers ISIS

Covering terrorist group ISIS and its beheadings of journalists and others led to several issues,

including the issue of publishing released videos from ISIS, which is not only promoting violence but

ruing the Islam picture and terrifying peoples

A video of journalist James Foley’s beheading was

released in August 2015 by ISIS.  The New York Post’s front page

image showing a screenshot of Foley

just before his death.

The issue is publishing on the front-page of a newspaper, without any warning to readers and the strong possibility children or vulnerable people could see, a violent propaganda photo of a man about to be murdered by in a graphic manner. While graphic images are sometimes necessary to publish in order to tell a story, in this case it was inappropriate and offensive for the Post to pick one of the most violent still images from the video showing the journalist just before his death and publish it as a full front page photo. The Post may not have selected a still image of the actual beheading, but it might as well have with the image it selected.

Well, As we can see how media used the crime of Isis to promote their selling “New York post” to put such picture as a front page of the news paper without considering any media ethics and what this cover could cause of harm to a lot of people, they didn't’t even respect the soul of the journalist and his family feelings .

Well Isis use all sort of violence against its victims and promote it with high elements and sources in filming, production, songs and even to give the exact wrong idea to Islam

And of course all kind of media use the thing that Isis did to promote their news to get the best selling, most viewed Though the media as we saw here it just promoting the sells

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