Editing Marta Cooper
Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
The edit can be undone.
Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then save the changes below to finish undoing the edit.
| Latest revision | Your text | ||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| − | + | Cultural Diplomacy & Media | |
By Marta Cooper (Editorial Assistant, Index on Censorship) | By Marta Cooper (Editorial Assistant, Index on Censorship) | ||
| − | |||
| − | |||
I think absolutely, in terms of building bridges across the gulfs that divide people linguistically, and from the media point of view, helping correspondents and journalists understand the countries they are reporting from and the Western audience they are serving. And I think in the case of Syria particularly, citizen media has been shown to be a really indispensable tool, particularly because Western journalists face so much difficultly entering the country. Of course there have been difficulties in verifying information, and that becomes far harder to do when we can’t necessarily have the on-the-ground reporters doing their job, but I think it does go somewhere into turning up the volume and helping a Western audience get a better picture of what’s going on. | I think absolutely, in terms of building bridges across the gulfs that divide people linguistically, and from the media point of view, helping correspondents and journalists understand the countries they are reporting from and the Western audience they are serving. And I think in the case of Syria particularly, citizen media has been shown to be a really indispensable tool, particularly because Western journalists face so much difficultly entering the country. Of course there have been difficulties in verifying information, and that becomes far harder to do when we can’t necessarily have the on-the-ground reporters doing their job, but I think it does go somewhere into turning up the volume and helping a Western audience get a better picture of what’s going on. | ||
