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martedì 20 novembre 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Peace Prize Speech: Al Jazeera's Point of View

Aljazeera.com dedicates a long article to Suu Kyi and her impassioned speech.


The Burmese political leader describes her feelings during her long imprisonment and says that winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 encouraged her to keep up the struggle for democracy in Myanmar.
The ceremony, which was held on June, in Oslo's City Hall, has been a very important political and social event, and Suu Kyi's speech has been listened and recorded by thousands of people.
Her oration received two standing ovations and a huge relevance all around the world.

Aung San Suu Kyi vicissitudes have been analyzed deeply in an article dated 30 May 2012 :


Here, Al Jazeera journalist reports a sort of biography of the Burmese leader. It's a detailed article, and there are narrowly described all the events that have led to the imprisonment and, then, to the winning of the Nobel Peace Prize.



Going back to the first article, we can see that the journalist reports a lot of Suu Kyi's quotes.
This helps us analyze her speech and focuses readers' attention on determined issues. For example it says :

"Often during my days of house arrest, it felt as though I were no longer a part of the real world. ;

and : "What the Nobel Peace Prize did was to draw me once again into the world of other human beings, outside the isolated area in which I lived, to restore a sense of reality to me ".

In my opinion, these quotes are really significant. They show us the humanity, the personal feeelings and fears of this unique woman.
Al Jazeera's article, and the speech itself, want to involve the people in this touching story.
Suu Kyi's aim is to be remembered, not as a woman who sacrificed her life, but as a symbol of political and social resistance against violence and abuses.

G.

domenica 11 novembre 2012

New Hampshire Elections: Al Jazeera's point of view


'Women win big in New Hampshire vote', this is the main title of the article appeared on the Official Al Jazeera Live Blog on the 7th November 2012. A short article, based on 'Reuters' news agency, talking about the election of a female Democrat governor, Maggie Hassan, and two women to represent New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives, Democrats Ann McLane Kuster and Carol Shea-Porter.
The article ends with a curt quote by Governor Hassan, saying that "Together, we will build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire".

We can see that the language used by the journalist (whose name is not even specified) is impersonal and hasty, maybe because the news has just been copied from the Reuters Agency.
The article was in the Official Al Jazeera Blog, and not in the Official Website, and no photos or insights have been added.

http://blogs.aljazeera.com/topic/us-election-2012/women-win-big-new-hampshire-vote

G.


lunedì 5 novembre 2012

Annecy shootings (Al Jazeera point of view)


Al Jazeera's reaction to the Lake Annecy's slaughter :

Al Jazeera's first online article about this massacre is dated 07/10/2012. It's a simple and direct report about the episode : it talks about the victims, 3 members of an Iraqui-British family, who have been shot with several bullets, and a French cyclist who was passing by and has been killed for being 'in the wrong place at the wrong moment'. The only survivors are two sisters, aged 7 and 4. The elder one was severely injured, she had been shot in the shoulder and beated in the head. Her little sister managed to hide herself under her mother's skirt. The police found her 8 hours after the shooting and she was completely shocked. After reporting the dynamics of the massacre, the journalist inserts a comment by public prosecutor Eric Maillaud saying that the slaughter was probably accomplished by non-professional criminals.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/10/2012102071717637204.html


The second Al Jazeera's article about this episode is dated 20/11/2012. It adds some details, for example, it says that investigators think that only one person was involved in the shootings. Moreover, it reports that, according to the French newspaper Le Parisien, the French cyclist, Syilvain Mollier, has been the first to be shot. It suggests that he, and not the Iraqui family, may be the target of the killer. The journalist strenghtens the previous hypotesis about the non-professionality of the killer, who is described as 'disorganised'. The article ends reporting that Saad al-Hilli, the 50year old father of the Iraqi family, worked as a mechanical design engineer with the Surrey Satellite Technology firm.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/09/2012965316547370.html

G.