The two articles for comparison are Google will not remove anti-Islam film from YouTube following White House request for review ,published on September 15th, 2012 from FoxNews.com, and from CTVnews.ca, published September 16th

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Media Study

A Comparitive Analysis

Chelsey Fonger

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Dr. F Volker Greifenhagen

RLST 100

October 4th, 2012

Comparative Media Analysis

        Those in the business of media publishing have an extremely delicate job. No matter what you publish, someone will agree, while others will read in disgust, or simply not care. Writers for newspapers and news outlets have a densely diverse crowd of people to please, all wanting to hear about the latest drama, violence and worldly decisions happening in their home towns, and around the globe, while touching on certain topics, and staying clear of others. Religion is often a touchy subject when being presented to the public eye. If we lived in a world of nontheistic readers, journalists would have a much easier job, but unfortunately, the human race is chalk full of opinionated people, who have their own pre-set ideas about religion in all its forms. In comparing these pieces of journalism we can separate words of judgement and true fact, revealing the opinionated societies of the world.

The two articles up for comparison are titled “Google will not remove anti-Islam film from YouTube following White House request for review” ,published on September 15th, 2012 from FoxNews.com, and from CTVnews.ca, the very same story was published September 16th, titled “Google refuses to take down anti-Muslim clip”. Both articles share the topic of an anti-Muslim film that was recently published in the United States and Middle Eastern countries such as India and Egypt. The video was created with the intent to insult the Muslim community, and create a false image of Muslim-Islam people, from the perspective of an Anti-Muslim, Christian writer/producer. Titled, “Innocence of Muslims”, it attempts to depict the prophet Muhammad as a potential pedophile, and Islam people to be “fake”. It has falsified Muslim people, what they believe in, and what they stand for, and has caused an overall global outrage, especially in heavily Muslim populated countries. Since the first publication of the video, many speculations of the videos intended purpose have been made. No matter which way you look at it, the video is offensive, and false in many senses, and countries throughout the world are taking different approaches on ways to handle the publication of this Muslim defacing video. In countries indirectly effected by the video, like Canada and the USA, the video has remained public, available on a variety of sites, the most popular being YouTube. On the contrary, in countries directly affected and offended by the publication like Egypt, Libya and India have been blocked from viewing the video on YouTube, and many other publication sites. The two published articles, from Fox News.com and CTVnews.ca, focus on the requests from within the White House for Google to remove the video “Innocence of Muslims” in both Canada and the United States, both of which were refused by Google and YouTube.

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Both chosen articles were accessed from an online news database, and were not published in any printed form from the same sources. Finding both articles was not as easy as going to the homepage and making a selection, for both articles on CTV.ca and Foxnews.com; I had to search for the specific topic of “religion in the news”. Looking at the CTV.ca article “Google refuses to take down anti-Muslim clip”, there is one picture of a protest, where several Muslim are gathered together, all appearing to be yelling, with their hand up, point to the sky, or possible holding ...

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