Topic 7 : The documentary entitled "The Power of Nightmares (Part 3 - Shadow in the Cave)" by Adam Curtis and The Theory of Media Imperialism.

Media imperialism is a theory stating that smaller countries are losing their identity due to the force-feeding of media from larger nations. It can be equated to small community shops closing down due to large superstores moving in, taking over and having a monopoly. As the larger media corporations begin to take over, smaller media companies are either being forced out or swallowed up.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-media-imperialism.htm

After watch the documentary and read the slide about Media Imperialism, i can relate that today, US government was spreading their "fantasy story" about terrorism by using media. We can see how powerful the media is as it can poisoning peoples mind with the information given. As fact that people are more trust on US information as United States is the world's biggest exporter of television and it only imports 2 percent in foreign programming. The dominance of the U.S. television industry is a global phenomenon. Third World countries rely too heavily on Western news sources. Hence,people were easily trust that the true terrorist who crashed the World Trade Center on 9/11 were Al-Qaeda. If you remember, on that tragic day,the news were keep showing the video of the incident to the public. They are trying to bear in peoples mind that Muslim are the one who do this terrorism. When this media imperialism happen, the true agenda of US president,Bush to attack Iraq and Afghanistan by using this reason become true. Therefore, people think that what America do to "protect" their country is a right thing to do (even though until now the true about US and Al-Qaeda are keep revealing). Well,I can say that Bush are fantasized too much about this terrorism. Nothing happen when they say that terrorism will happen at Disneyland or there is terrorism that will happen all over their country but the stupid idea that keep coming from him are really annoyed me. And people are keep panicking when hear all this news. Unfortunately, I can say that US are using media to influence people's mind about their propaganda. They are monopolize the world in term of media imperialism.