Media is misrepresenting the war
Andrew Browning
Issue date: 8/27/07 Section: Opinion
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Maybe one day the military will get it right and re-name the missions to symbolize the actual effectiveness of its actions. The missions could still have really cool-sounding names, they could be called things like "Operation You Just Received a One-Way Ticket to Guantanamo Bay" or "Operation Wait, Why are We Here Again?"
Most of the time I feel like the media and the White House have adopted a fairly simple strategy for keeping Americans in the dark: Out of sight, out of mind. There are almost no images of the carnage and bloodshed that is a daily occurrence in Iraq, yet we are flooded with images of Paris Hilton and other celebrities, which only help to make us appear more dimwitted and lackadaisical to the struggle of the rest of the world.
Our society needs to start paying attention to what is really going on in Iraq if we ever hope to change anything. All I can hope for now is that the media starts assuming some responsibility for the mess it helped to create in the Middle East.
Most of the time I feel like the media and the White House have adopted a fairly simple strategy for keeping Americans in the dark: Out of sight, out of mind. There are almost no images of the carnage and bloodshed that is a daily occurrence in Iraq, yet we are flooded with images of Paris Hilton and other celebrities, which only help to make us appear more dimwitted and lackadaisical to the struggle of the rest of the world.
Our society needs to start paying attention to what is really going on in Iraq if we ever hope to change anything. All I can hope for now is that the media starts assuming some responsibility for the mess it helped to create in the Middle East.
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Ryan
posted 8/27/07 @ 8:02 PM EST
I don't know what "news" you are watching but I see plenty of "carnage" from Iraq. Of course, you have been there and have seen what is going on in person right? This conspiracy crap is getting a little old. (Continued…)
C.J.
posted 8/28/07 @ 1:41 AM EST
I find it hard to believe the seriousness of anybody who is spoon-fed all their news through the talking heads on television. Most people can read much faster than a news anchor announces and every major television news source has online versions of the exact same stories. (Continued…)
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