If real people (like us) are very interested in issues having to do w/ politics/government/current events...?

Question

...then why does the media ignore this huge demand?

Isn't the main pupose of the networks to respond to consumer demand in order to increase ratings and therefore profits from sponsors? So why aren't the networks even TESTING this demand by covering the Iraqi occupation and conflict in-depth and extensively for once? Why aren't they showing the risque images and showing the soldiers that are coming home injured and criminally neglected the same government that encouraged them to join and made brought them into this situation in the first place? Why aren't they letting us know that most do not approve of Bush and would support a candidate that would bring them home? Don't you think all of these kinds of issues and controveries would make good television and a more balanced, educational, and more honest news?

Answer 1

Good question! Just yesterday, I was discussing this subject with some people and we all wondered why this is the most under-reported and under-filmed war we have ever known. Or, it is filmed, we are not seeing much of it. I've lived through WW2, Korean war, Vietnam war, and everything since, and the information about the Iraq invasion seems almost secretive. What's up with that?

Answer 2

The problem is that most media haven't a clue about the military services. Most members of the media (unlike me) have never served in any military service and are clueless about how military members think, what the rules of engagement are (or even what that means) and many are badly educated about even basic politics.

You can blame the excessively liberal environment of the typical college campus for part of this, but the media basically just moves in the direction it started moving in several years ago.

There was a time--in my lifetime--when nearly every major institution included veterans of wars and military services. Sadly, that era is long-gone. Now most members of Congress are non-veterans.

I happen to be both a member of the media and a veteran. I try to give a fair amount of coverage to all of the various topics that are in the news, including what's going on with the military services. But I am very much in the minority and it's getting worse with time.

Interestingly enough, most places the president goes in the military welcome him and even cheer and applaud. There are some service members who don't approve of the president and many who feel there has been some mismanagement of the war. But most are loyal to their nation and their commander-in-chief.

You disagree with the media because the media hasn't agreed with you. To a large extent they have agreed with you, but it is incumbent on even a less educated reporter to make accurate and truthful reports on what he or she is seeing.

You are entitled to your opinions, and I spent a few years of my life doing what I could to make sure your point of view, among others, was protected.

Answer 3

Ummm----they were doing a lot of that over the past few years.

Did you miss it. I did not.

The media devoted a lot of time pointing out that our soldiers--The kids that grew up in a neighborhood like yours and played with people like you were nothing but a bunch of sadistic torturing rapist and killers out to steal the poor arabs OIL for MEAN OLD GW and Cheney.

What I would like to see is the solder, that KILLED a few bad guys helped some iraqis gain their freedom-(That stuff you take for Granted) got a few medals and now is going home to live in a country that he is proud to have served and surrounded by people that think the world of him.

Compared to other wars this one has been very successful if you compare casualty rates and deaths.

Hell, we went into the heart of the middle-east--ON the other side of the world and took on the most FANATIC Murderers in the world and freed 50 million people while we promoted democratic values and saved women and children from being enslaved by radical, blood thirsty suicidal nut jobs.

I would love to see some soldiers rewarded for that in a nice movie. (Not the movies that have recently come out that attack these Marines and soldiers.)

Not attacked in the media and overly scrutinized by it in an attempt to MAKE US LOSE! by portraying these men and women of our armed forces as the BAD GUYS and helping the enemy by promoting their PROPAGANDA. (CNN did this--it showed video of American soldiers being killed by Alqueda and other terrorist. Where did they get the video you might ask. It was given to them---with music included-- by supporters of the "INSURGENTS.") The same videos that circulates in the mosque around the middle-east to get recruits for the terrorist.

We have lost less than 4000 soldiers in IRAQ in FOUR YEARS----less than a 1000 a year on average.

Almost 100,000 people die because of Hospital screw ups.
40,000 because of bad driving. 80,000 due to diabetes. EACH YEAR! INSIDE THE USA!

In Vietnam we lost 60,000 in 15 years--that is 4000 a year. Korea--50,000 in three years.(that was a horrible war by the way.)

In WWII--we lost on average--8000 a month--and we were the winners--465,000 in four years. I don't recall what the Germans and Japs lost. The press used to be on our side back then.

I wish it was today!

In fact--if you look at it--we started losing wars when the press (our own press) decided that the enemy was somehow morally equivelent to the USA and deserved to "TELL" their side of the story to the AMERICAN people. The press and the democratic leadership has gotten so confused that they would trade the lives of american soldiers and subject America to defeat--Just to score a few political points and gain more power for themselves.

In the past--this was treason--or sedition. Now it is a cover for those very things--ONLY IT'S CALLED

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS and cloaked in the 1st amendment.

Answer 4

As a general rule, sponsors don't like controversy -- too often, the controversy spills over onto them. Better to have a smaller audience that is favorable than a larger audience of which a great portion is offended.

Answer 5

The media you watch is no longer reporting on Iraq because the news is not what they want to report on. The surge is working and our soldiers, the best in the world, are doing a fantastic job. They still report every little bad detail they can. They report when they can blame America or Bush for something. Recently they even had to report that things were improving... that must have killed them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/us/politics/25dems.html?ei=5065&en=790f06535d9a5ea7&ex=1196571600&adxnnl=1&partner=MYWAY&adxnnlx=1195930847-xrlMleXS/EfHPOXHzQDwig

Sorry for the bad news in your view. Boy she gave me the thumbs down quick! LOL...

Answer 6

Of course we do, but there are many people that really don't care at all.
Most likely this is because they rarely have a choice to know of important issues because they are bombarded with fluff.
The Media is being controlled and I assure you it is not by "Liberals"

Answer 7

that will never happen, it would make everyone look bad, and the media is corrupt anyway, and they would have to eat their words, they are evil, and UN-American