magic_hat

[QUOTE]Originally posted by bundy
perhaps it can be summed up by saying that you can only trust the media to be the media.
QUOTE] -this is true, but a good portion of the U.S is too ignorant to actually see this.


first you must look back at to the 20th century and see how much of a joke the media has been in relation to war time journalism. WWI- reporters basically worked for the government, they censored themselves, and were heavily censored by the Committee on Public Information or CPI.
WWII- the same type of government agencies censored every letter, telegram, and report that came across the border.
jump to:
Vietnam- the american public was lied to from the start, if you disagree with that please go and do some reading.

Present day: The government has become very skilled in the art of propaganda. We get more information than we have ever gotten in the past, but if you think about all the information that gets censored and left out.....its scary! If people are not getting ALL the information, their views and judgments of other people and other nations are skewed...and thats exactly what the supporters of war desire.

If the media picks and chooses what they want to show, and if the administration picks and chooses what they want to release....there is no way in hell that people are going to have a clear picture of what is going on. As for saying "If you don't believe the news what do you think? By the sounds of it it would seem as though you are a supporter of Saddam"......thats just rediculous.