Are you tired of the use of media to hype up the masses for war???
2006-08-23 00:34:08 · 8 answers · asked by rachel_waves 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
During the Cold War, a group of Russian journalists toured the United States. On the final day of their visit, they were asked by their hosts for their impressions. “I have to tell you,” said their spokesman, “that we were astonished to find, after reading all the newspapers and watching TV, that all the opinions on all the vital issues were, by and large, the same. To get that result in our country, we imprison people, we tear out their fingernails. Here, you don't have that. What's the secret? How do you do it?”
What is the secret? It's a question now urgently asked of those whose job is to keep the record straight: who in this country have extraordinary constitutional freedom. I refer to journalists, of course, a small group who hold privileged sway over the way we think, even the way we use language.
What the Russian journalists were referring to is censorship by omission, the product of a parallel world of unspoken truth and public myths and lies: in other words, censorship by journalism, which today has become war by journalism.
2006-08-23 00:54:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no! Yes i'm sick of watching pictures of devastation, people killed, maimed etc. But i do believe that the media have an important part to play in any kind of war. I'm talking about unbiased media. If it wasn't for the use of camcorder, mobile phones, many atrocious pictures wouldn't have filtered through about one thing or another.
Until media became what it is now, many atrocities went on unacknowledged because it gave governments at war the freedom to do anything and everything they shouldn't have done.
So if i get tired of watching the same things ... I'm also grateful that media coverage means that any side fighting has to be careful not to do their worse as it wouldn't look too good where the public is concerned.
2006-08-23 07:44:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am tired of the media trying to thwart every effort to actually DO something to win the war.
2006-08-23 07:41:06 · answer #3 · answered by kelly24592 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It almost seems to be their way of life. They have lived with that, die by that.
We are hearing about it so much now due to our sophisticated technology.
Everyone wants to see their favorite newscaster, reporter, anchorman/woman. Stations are dedicated to news. We are inundated with negativity. Instead of the millions they spend on broadcasting the news, why not invest the money to make the world a better place, instead of tearing the human race apart and exposing others in their grief?
Now that's exploitation.
2006-08-23 07:53:41 · answer #4 · answered by peppermint_paddy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never thought I'd see it get as bad as it has become on U.S. television news. And, I lived through the horrors of the crooked Nixon and Christian Cracker Reagan years of biased media. Al jazeera TV news is pretty good, though.
2006-08-23 07:42:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the news media is a lot like you and just don't care much for the USA.
2006-08-23 07:46:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
they will continue to throw stones on the middle east, and especially Iran, so that the population won't be against the upcoming war... the same thing happened with Iraq
2006-08-23 07:39:58 · answer #7 · answered by tsar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no war on terrorism without terrorists. And they are real enough.
2006-08-23 08:01:36 · answer #8 · answered by frank d 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋