Once again our media fails us

[moniss]

4. Not at all but just making it part of the

written record. I find this all as on par with how Western media reported on Vietnam. I often commented to people at that time that media was giving us hours and hours of coverage/print about Vietnam but after all of it we basically received no education about the people of Vietnam, their culture, history, ceremonies, role in Southeast Asia historically etc. Just stereotypical still shots and video of people in Saigon or in huts/rice paddies while Western voices narrated the portrait of what they wanted us to believe.

Same thing has been done here about people from the Middle East. The constant refrain on TV dramas over the last 2 decades has been cop/spy/intelligence agency shows where it's a constant barrage of "Middle Eastern/Islamic bad guys going to blow us all up" for plots week after week and year after year. So at the end of all of the supposed "presentation/coverage" of this area and the individual countries in particular the vast majority of people in the US if asked the question of whether Iran is mainly Sunni or Shia couldn't answer correctly without looking it up. Let alone realize why the subject matters.