The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi and Malala Yousafzai and the White Savior Complex by Assed Baig, give readers a backstage pass on the show the media puts on for the world. Faludi deeply searches into how the media played a role post 9/11 and refers to the terror dream as haunted terror we do not remember. The event 9/11 destroyed the myth of invisibility that America could not be attacked and the media reacted in such a way that nothing like that would ever happen again. In 2012, When Malala was shot the media immediately jumped on the story of the young girl and how women were weak. The media twisted stories in their favor to make America appear strong and look like protectors of the world. There was a stark difference between how men and women are portrayed in the media Men are portrayed in media to be the heroes and even go as far as to make up stories so people have something to believe in. Faludi and Baig would both agree on how media twisted stories and made them appear in their favor by showing white men as saviors in stories; in
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Baig states that “The story of an innocent brown child that was shot by savages for demanding an education and along comes the knight in shining armour to save her” (Baig, 2013, para.4). They felt as if they were saving her from her own people, however the sad truth is that there were several cases that were very similar to Malala’s that did not receive nearly as much attention. Coming from all over the world, “but we conveniently forget about those as Western journalists and politicians fall over themselves to appease their white-middle class guilt also known as the white man's burden” (Baig, 2013, para.6). What they did was out of their own selfishness by painting the non-white man as the enemy and themselves as the heroes. The entire message is skewed as Baig concludes her argument
Baig states that “The story of an innocent brown child that was shot by savages for demanding an education and along comes the knight in shining armour to save her” (Baig, 2013, para.4). They felt as if they were saving her from her own people, however the sad truth is that there were several cases that were very similar to Malala’s that did not receive nearly as much attention. Coming from all over the world, “but we conveniently forget about those as Western journalists and politicians fall over themselves to appease their white-middle class guilt also known as the white man's burden” (Baig, 2013, para.6). What they did was out of their own selfishness by painting the non-white man as the enemy and themselves as the heroes. The entire message is skewed as Baig concludes her argument