If so, what do you think?
If not, why not?
2007-09-24 07:32:14 · 7 answers · asked by Incognito 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
oh, and if you wouldn't mind... are you Dem, Rep, or Misc?
2007-09-24 07:33:11 · update #1
sharia_vigilant- RE: “You can tell the world is on a severe downward slide towards the abyss of war... it is quite disturbing.”
Do you mean now or then?
2007-09-24 07:41:16 · update #2
to all: I didn't get the impression that the press censured themselves in WW2, as much as the government didn't report losses. Also, you gotta remember there was no 24/7 news cable...there was radio, news papers, and news reels. Most media was censured because they didn't want it to be intelligence. In other words, the media didn't report the losses at Pearl Harbor, cuz the media didn't know or have a means to report it. The woman from Mobile said, they didn't even know anything was sunk at Pearl Harbor, didn't know Japan had surrounded the Philipines... the victims families' were told to keep it secret what ship their family member died on etc. There were good and bad aspects of this, obviously.
2007-09-24 08:07:27 · update #3
I am. I unfortunately fell asleep during it last night, but I'm going to watch again tonight.
I hope it's as good as it looks.
2007-09-24 07:37:00 · answer #1 · answered by baby1 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I watched it last night. It looks good so far. One thing I did notice is on how the narrator keeps bring up that how the press agreed to keep quite on how bad the war was going at first. They did not give accurate loses or tell of the supply shortages the troops had at the front. They did not want to let the Japanese know how well they were doing against us. I guess that stopped during Vietnam and now the press reports everything.
Moderate.
2007-09-24 14:40:49 · answer #2 · answered by Chris 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm watching it and I think it's great, school kids should be required to watch it!
Also all those that think the Iraq war has been rough, need to see it, we lost 35,000 troops in the first year of the war.
Chris- it is most certainly because of Vietnam that the press is so power-drunk now a days. They feel they have no responsibility in how and what they report, if someone even tried to recommend that type of restraint by the media today would be said to be trying to censor free speech instead of what it really is and requesting prudent use of there reports.
I guess they spend too much time asking if the could report the info instead of asking if they should.
2007-09-24 14:38:46 · answer #3 · answered by jasonzbtzl 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I am and I think last nights airing was excellent.
You can tell the world is on a severe downward slide towards the abyss of war... it is quite disturbing.
Addition:
I mean now... there are so many indicators. I have talked to my dad & he (being a very level headed individual) considers the condition of the world to be worse than it was during the Cold War and even more disconcerting than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
There is something in the air, a tension that we can all feel. Something that is instigating many of us who would typically be friends here at YA to lash out at one another… economic disparity, racial tensions, political elites (both democrat & republican) getting richer and acquiring more power…
Things are a changin’…and not for the better.
2007-09-24 14:38:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was very intense-Americans made sacrifices-there was draft-taxes were raised-war binds were sold America was under seige-it wasn't a game to go to another part of the world by choice--but in large part it was over oil-we cut off the oil from the Japanese to a large extent.
2007-09-24 14:40:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is a testament of what Madmen with WMD can do to us innocent civilians.
Human
2007-09-24 14:55:23 · answer #6 · answered by Rja 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I take the Japanese side and wish they had beat us... Anyway, everyone loses in a war...
2007-09-24 14:42:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋