Political Cartoon

                This is a great representation of the media in the USA and other western states. The cartoon shows the camera man capturing video of the horrible things that are going on in Africa. By doing this the camera man neglects shooting footage of all of the good things that are going on in Africa. I think this is a great representation of the media. Africa does have many problems but they also are making progress. The media never shows anything that is good though. The Media always tries to get the most dramatic story they can. They assume that people don’t want to hear about good things that are going on so they just do not talk about the good things. This is the medias attempt to make western people feel superior which could possible get better ratings for the TV station or more copies of a newspaper sold. But the fact is that this is just not fair to the Africans that are building countries and starting democratic government. The bad people get all the attention and give the continent of Africa a bad aura. This also creates economic problems for Africa because there is no chance of the tourism industry ever taking off if everyone in western society thinks that Africa is just an awful place where bad things happen all of the time. This is why the media should cover some of the good things that are happening instead of trying to have us all look down on Africa and be afraid of it.