What's Tim Thinking?

Tim Robbins keynote speech at the National Broadcasters Association this year was directed towards the power and potential of the broadcasters and its use. It was a plea to ask broadcasters to empower the “weak” and to help unify the nation. In another speech, Mr. Robbins criticizes the president for bombing Afghanistan and forming community watch for suspicious activity as a consequence of 9-11. I believe that by following Mr. Robbins advice would just shift extremes. Media would still fail to balance out. For example, the Canadian sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie perhaps sends the message that Tim is looking for. The show displays the lives peaceful lives of the Islamic people and the prejudices they have to deal with everyday but it fails to show the radical side of Islam. Take a look at this article that I found written by a Muslim from Saudi Arabia (perhaps in the US). While I am pretty sure that most Muslims in the United States like Americans or have neutral feelings it is pretty obvious that there are nations overseas full of Muslims that hate us because of our support to Israel and other reasons. Broadcasts and media have a duty to show us what is going on in the world. We can not close our eyes or look the other way and pretend that we are living in Disneyland’s Small World. Being realistic, I believe that there are just too many people in the world, too many religions, and too many cultures to be understood by all of the different opinions in the world to achieve world peace. In my opinion, Tim Robbins is naïve and asking us to be naive with his hopes that Americans would have came together after 9-11 by fighting the war on terroism by sending a message that says we are stronger because we and our communities rebuild! And while I believe that Bush’s attack on Iraq was wrong I believe that we had every right to invade Afghanistan. Metaphorically speaking, had the 9-11 attacks been a slap to your cheek, would you turn you face and give the perpetrator your other cheek?.....I didn’t think so.