Control room response

The Control Room was a lot more intriguing than I thought it would be.  Personally, the idea of watching a movie about Middle Eastern news isn’t really appealing to me.  But I was surprisingly intrigued.  To actually hear and see how the Middle Eastern countries view America first hand was actually a little bit frightening.  To see that there are places in the world that can pretty much put anything they want on the news like what Al Jazerra did, is pretty unsettling.  Perhaps the worst part was actually seeing the dead bodies of Middle Eastern and American soldiers.  I don’t believe that dead bodies of military men and women should be shown to the general public at all.

The exercise we did in class was interesting.  I never really saw myself as privileged before that.  I never realized that I was lucky to have two parents who went to college or to have the opportunity to even drive a car.  I guess when I usually think of what privileged is, I think about it in relation to my peers, and all the people around me.  I never thought about it in relation to other countries.  Countries where people survive off of not even half of what I have.  It really made me realize how lucky I am.