Hotel Rwanda

As I read one of the articles that are on edline, I noticed that there were lot of controversies over America's saying that they did not know the seriousness of the genocide going on in Rwanda where 8,000 people were being killed everyday. Maybe it was that America or other countries did not want to intervene in the war and lose their men but I think that media didn't portray the seriousness of the war well enough so that other people out of Rwanda would understand. In the interview with the BBC reporter, the reporter said that it took a while for him to realize the seriousness of the war even though he was in Rwanda himself. In the movie, there was a woman who said that genocide was not happening in Rwanda and I think that those kinds of words gave an impression to the people outside of Rwanda that it wasn't a big deal but just a normal civil war. I totally agreed when a person in the movie said that when people see bad news they would just say 'oh what a bad thing' and then continue to flip the channel. If the media isn't that strong enough to grab the audience's attention, then nothing would actually change.