It's getting closer to April, which is a frightening prospect but also an exciting one. However, I believe that my mother is more anxious than I am - I heard on the family grape vine that she's having long talks with my auntie about her concerns. My greatest concern at the moment is how to organise my university assessment so that I don't fail my subjects! But my teachers are being supportive, which is good.
Though I have a deeper concern that just struck me - the role of the media in reporting on conflicts. Information has so much power and so does the source of the information. If we hear something on our television or in our newspapers we'll believe it more than if we go onto the Internet and look up Al-Jazeera (an Arab news network). That's not to say we believe everything we're told, but we believe enough. Also, news broadcasters act as a filter - reporting only what they choose. Just think of all that goes unreported.
Media is so important. Everyone needs a valid journalistic source to represent them or they go unheard. Reading emails from people in Palestine, I hear about a lot of officially unreported events and think, is the same happening in Israel? Are there several violent events perpetrated by Palestinians upon Israelis that go unreported? Or is that just something the Palestinians suffer - the lack of wide media coverage?
Makes me want to stop studying law and take up journalism in unrepresented countries!
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