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Friday, May 2, 2003
News
Pape 5
Feeding the needy
CMU aids in
Iraqi food project
Helping
out
Anyone
interested in
volunteering
may contact
Amber
Inscore at
ext. 4004.
Erin Boyd
Pilot editor
For over a month now, the
whole world has been subject
ed to images of war-torn Iraq
via newspa
pers, televi
sion and the
Internet.
G W U
students
wanting to
help these
victims may
have
thought
there was
nothing they
could do.
Think again.
Campus Ministries United
(CMU) has recently joined
with the North Carolina
Baptist Men and the Greater
Cleveland County Baptist
Association to collect food as
part of an Operation Iraqi
Freedom relief work project.
Led by junior Amber
Inscore, the Gardner-Webb stu
dent representative for the pro
ject, CMU has collected
money over the past several
weeks.
“Because the [food] speci
fications are so strict, we only
asked for money [from GWU
students],” said Inscore.
During exam week.
Inscore and other students will
use the money to purchase and
box food for the project.
“We will need help buying
the stuff and loading the
boxes,” said Inscore.
Various churches through
out North Carolina are partici
pating in the project. The
Cleveland County community
is hoping to fill 1,000 boxes.
“A box company donated
1,000 boxes,” said Inscore.
The food will be collected
throughout North Carolina
until May 17. It will then be
sent to Iraq as soon as possible.
“This is a great opportuni
ty to provide for these people’s
[the Iraqi’s] needs in the name
of Jesus,” said Inscore. “They
see America as a Christian
nation, and this will give them
a good example of that. This is
a non-threatening way to por
tray Christ to them.”
Inscore noted that each
box will have John 1:17 writ
ten on it: “For the law was
given through Moses; grace
and truth came through Jesus
Christ.”
Anyone interested in vol
unteering may contact Inscore
at ext. 4004.
The Pilot wishes
everyone a great summer
and good luck on exams.
Be sure to keep up with
The Pilot online over
summer to get all the
latest news.
War 101 — Part 3
The media in war time
Emily Killian
Pilot copy editor
Every good journalist is taught to avoid
letting opinion seep into their stories.
Opinion, the journalist’s worst enemy, may
come in the form of biased or incomplete
reporting. And for some, opinion may be the
one thing that ruins an otherwise sterling
career for a journalist.
For journalists in Iraq, it is hard to avoid
opinionated reporting, said Robert Raiford, a
journalist during the Vietnam War, who
speaks from personal experience. Journalists
are spending months of their lives in a foreign
country with perfect strangers. As people,
they will want to develop friendships. More
than likely, Raiford said, these friendships
will be formed with the people who are phys
ically close to them—the soldiers.
Because reporters are making friends
with their sources, they have a very high
potential to be biased in their portrayals of the
war in Iraq, said Raiford. Faced with the pres
sure of being in the field, as well as the pres
sure of the business side of journalism, they
will be faced with the pressures of potentially
having to portray their friends in a bad light,
he said.
“The media business today is entertain
ment driven,” said Chad Raymond, assistant
professor of Political Science. “The reporting
from Iraq is what will grab viewers’ atten
tion.”
For Raymond, the media is not necessar
ily doing a good job covering the war,
although he believes the situation with
embedded reporters is better than the Persian
Gulf War of 1991.
“The media today are show
ing firefights without an
explanation of the events.
This gives viewers incomplete
information, and they rush to
judgment without knowing all
the facts. ”
Chad Raymond
Having correspondents giving reports
from the field “gives reporters less chance to
put a spin on things,” said Raymond.
“Reports are more accurate and more direct
because they [the media] do not have to rely
on the chain of command for information.”
Raymond also said that viewers now can
see what is going on during the war as it is
happening, and they can compare the things
they are viewing with the things that the mil
itary leaders are saying. This allows viewers
to make their own decisions about the war, he'
said.
He did not say, however, that the mediai
situation in Iraq is perfect.
“The media today are showing firefights
without an explanation of the events,” said
Raymond. “This gives viewers incomplete
information and they rush to judgment with
out knowing all the facts.”
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