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The article Hiding the Real Africa by Karen Rothmyer is a great piece. It is an article that invokes objectivity and is founded on objective journalism.
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Karen starts her article by talking about the misrepresentation of Africa by the Western media. She notes that the Western media almost always captures the negative aspects of Africa and appears to neglect anything good that comes from Africa. At one instance, she notes that in “reinforcing the sense of economic misery, between May and September 2010 the ten most-read US newspapers and magazines carried 245 articles mentioning poverty in Africa, but only five mentioning gross domestic product.” Through this, she tries to show that indeed the Western media is biased in their approach and coverage of Africa. However, Karen appears to have a reason for all of this. She notes that “the main reason for the continued dominance of such negative stereotypes, I have come to believe, may well be the influence of Western-based non-governmental organizations (NGO...