Thursday, April 28, 2011

Piracy In Somalia-civilans speaking up.

On April 14th NPR covered a three part story about Piracy in Somalia. The world sees these areas as free for all. In this article it speaks about Somlialand, part of Somalia which is one of few areas that are trying to establish a credible government. 
Here, media has depicted piracy in part 1 as a free for all and explains the audacity of the pirates to try and legitimize their actions, and interviews them etc... However, media is now starting to cover the little people as well. 
In this article they are showing a feel good story about the civilians that are trying to capture the pirates themselves and the civilians acting as policeman. Piracy effects the economics of the world, because anyone who has ships has to ensure more, and the ransoms, and ships now need to pay for security on board but yet the media is finding it equally important to cover and report the feel good stories. Media in in constant battle with reporting the news and the feel-good stories about what people want to hear and this three part report is  a direct reflection on knowing what the people want to hear and therefore reporting it. 

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