Introduction
The Sarajevo war had a lot of effects on the residents of Sarajova. The news footage of the 1994 Sarajevo marketplace massacre and the Bosnia war was interpreted differently. During this war so many people lost their lives and so many buildings were destroyed. For instance the Bosnia and Herzegovina parliament office was also destroyed during this war. It was open that during this year, Muslims kept staging massacres and this was to enable the Muslims to gain sympathy of the western media and as a result, push the west to enter the conflict on their side. In Sarajevo the Bosnia army provoked the Serbs daily.
During the same year, the Bosnia army jumbled another step forward by launching infantry attacks from Sarajevo towards the Serb-held suburbs of the city and this army immediately started attacking the Serbs from a safe area.Eventaully, these Serbs retaliated. As a result, the Bosnia president appealed for air strikes against the Serb guns. This was a report by the CNN about the truth of Sarajevo market place. There was a lot of conflict during this war which affected so many lives of these people but according to the news report, two different stations reported the war differently. (McCabe, 1992).
The video from the French news report from Sarajevo reported the events in Sarajevo in a different way from how people know the information about the war. In comparison to the CNN report. This shows that some of the news broadcasts don’t usually give the correct information on these events for instance the Sarajevo war. As a result, this can peoples opinions of what is happening in the world. Different news broadcast stations usually give different reports on the same story.
The similarities between the two news reports were the wide impact the war had to the residents of Sarajevo. The war affected so many people in that country and also had so many impacts to that economy. There were also many injustices which are also reported differently from these stations and are committed on people based on their religion, race, gender, sexual orientation among others. The Sarajevo market place massacre and the Bosnia war led to so many people shedding their blood as can be shown in the picture below. Unfortunately, the reports about the war were reported differently to the public.
Another report on the Sarajevo market place massacre is by the wall street journal. The report was that Rajhis bank has been supporting the Wahhabi groups around the world. Their most prominent bases are Bosnia and Kosovo. They reported on firefights which the Serbian police had in the south Serbia where the Islamic were trying to extend their influence. (McCabe, 1992).
Negativity has a role to play in the way stories are reported. This is because if the reporter has a negative attitude or is sensitive about that event, then you find that the story is going to be reported differently. As a result, the whole meaning of that story is left. There are certain similarities when reporting these events. You normally find that the real fact of the event is brought but with a different meaning altogether. There are also some differences by these presenmters.
Differences occur when the various reporters try to hide some information to the members of the public. Many reporters don’t usually give the true story of the matter hence leading to lack of enough information to the listeners. The idea of the reporter forgetting some of the important information when reporting. This will also lead to poor misinterpretation of the information by the listener. Ethical differences are also another difference by these reporters. You normally find that some reporters are biased on some ethical groups. This leads to discrimination and false information can be given.
The issue of favoring one group also arises in these reporters. You find that if a certain media favors a certain ethnic group, it’s automatic that the report will be different from the other media and hence this may lead to poor understanding of that report. (Dunston, 1989).
The strange death of Silas Deane
History is what happened in the past. It involves uncovering the past. It helps to answer most of the peoples questions on what happened in the past, why these events happened, and the various circumstances which led to them happening, their effects on the modern society and lastly how these historical facts were interpreted by the reporters. What we mean by history is the everyday view of the matter. For history to be effective, historians need to return to the past by the use of the already existing records about what happened in the past and be in a position to bring it to the present world for people to look at.
These historians are said to succeed on when they come with the correct facts about what happened without distorting the information. History is one of the most important facts needed to organize human knowledge, but it has led to many misunderstandings to so many people. History exists and it also exited long before we were even born. We met history at our tender age when tales of the past with heroic myths were told to us by our grandparents. Many students today absorb the required facts about historical facts without any real conception of what history is. You find that in the view of everyday history, it is often misleading.
This can be shown by properly examine in details the event that happened. The death of Silas Deane. Although Silas Deane served as a distinct second rate diplomat for the United States during most of the years of the American Revolution, you find that despite his work, he does not appear in most of the American books. Dean had come to France to secure military supplies to the colonies. He was also a good source of information for the Britain wars.
He is neither recognized for his contributions during the American Revolution. Since history aims to remember those heroes in the past or certain historical events so that people are in a position to look at them, in the modern days, history has been ignored so much in most of the countries. Yet the story of Deane death is an excellent example of an event which can not be understood by the modern people.Silas Deane was so much popular in the American folklore and this was due to his rags to riches stories he narrated to so many people. (Dunston, 1989).
Until his death, Deane made a lasting place for himself in the history text. His career ended up with riches to rags story. About Dean history, he was the son of a humble blacksmith in Groton whereby the father had so much inspiration to his son and sent him to a college in Yale and it is in this college where Deane took advantage of the situations and opportunities. In this college, Silas studied law and married a well to do widow.Silas Deane did not have any Sou to subsist on elsewhere and he is also a wretched monument of the consequences of a departure from right. He boarded Boston packet in mid September whereby it took him to London.
On 19th a storm came up which led to the ship to lose its both anchor. On 22nd the same month, he complained of dizziness and a severe headache. After four hours he immediately died. That was the rise and fall of the famous Silas.This historical story looks pretty clear but so many people misinterpreted it. For instance, one English newspaper predicts silas death as to the mistakes of placing confidence in his compatriots.
Dean was one a good example to so many people by his story of whereby he ended up his career from riches to rags hence a good role model for so many people who wants to succeed in life. historians don’t rest content with the facts that come mostly at hand. The past holds an infinite number of facts about those last days and of course they could never be all included in a historical account. But the silas death had so many interpretations by so many news reporters hence losing meaning of history. The real fact of the story is that silas died through a storm which came up and led to the ship to lose its both anchors. As a result, he had dizziness plus other complications which affected his health and later died. He worked drumming up support for his canal project but which later failed.
It’s difficult for historians to give the correct story about these historical facts. This is because these facts happened in the past and hence difficult to get the real story. Many sources give these stories differently for instance the death of Silas Deane, many sources reported differently concerning his death. For instance some of the researchers wrote that Deane death was a result of becoming depressed by his poverty and ill health which eventually led him to commit suicide.
Another source is by John Cutting who also wrote a rumor on Deane death that he was predetermined to take a sufficient quantity of Laudanum and this was supposed to ensure his dissolution before the boat could sail to America. These two interpretations of Dean’s death show how much history can be misunderstood by not giving the truth of the matter. You normally find that history can eventually stay alive when information is given as it occurred but you normally find that the information is distorted from the source and the whole thing becomes wrong.
There has been many conflicts involving the historical facts. The activists who interpret these events give reports that differ from those who promote it. This is because the conflicting parties are to interpret the events of the past in different ways. (Udovicic, 2002).
Conclusion
History is important in the modern life since it’s through history that we are in a position to understand the past. It’s also through analyzing the past events that we are also in a position to shape the future. But for history to be well understood, the correct information must be given to ensure that people know the exact story of that event. Unfortunately, most of the historians don’t usually give the true story but usually tend to hide some information to suit themselves.
Before the information reaches the final recipient, you normally find that the information is distorted completely. History has a wide role in most of the communities. It’s through history that the modern age is in a position to understand the historical events and facts which recently don’t happen. We are in a position to know the most heroes in our communities and hence as a result we need to remember them by recognizing them.
There are also historical conflicts and these conflicts are mainly seen by the reporters of these events. You find that most of these reporters usually don’t give the same information about the same happening. This is clearly shown in the Silas Deane death which was reported differently by different reportes.When an event is reported differently, and then you find that it becomes hard to get the correct story and hence losing its meaning.
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