by Akramah

Created on: February 16, 2007   Last Updated: April 19, 2007

Prolific information dissemination in the West is remarkable. However, it usually is centered around happenings within celebrity circles where the Western public has been tuned to focus on. If anything happens anywhere else around the world, it must prove that western civilization is superior otherwise, it won't make the headlines.

The danger here is that self-serving and power-hungry elitists within the third world may take advantage of this. They can exaggerate the problems within their own countries to solicit support in destabilizing those countries. There are also those who, for an opportunity to regularize their stay within richer foreign countries, may fabricate or exaggerate human rights abuses in their own countries.

Anything that opens a particular part of the world to scrutiny by the Western media is good. Unfortunately, if such a fabrication or exaggeration becomes exposed as untrue, very few people have access to it. That truth doesn't usually make much money so many media houses in the West may ignore it completely. The result? I wish somebody will poll a cross section of the American public to see how many do not believe that the whole of the African continent is engulfed in a gigantic civil war, practices female circumcision or is homophobic or polygamist.

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