MediaEssay Preview: MediaReport this essayIn spite of all the freedom, technology, and human rights that some of the countries posses in this new era, the debating on media thought control and media filter is still floating around with some supporters and others opposing this fact. Although the argument by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman was developed quite some time ago, but I believe this argument is still strongly valid at our time. Many examples to prove this argument can be given such as the media role during the war on Iraq, media coverage in the holy land for the conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis, and last but not least, the strongly influenced, and hidden hand of some people that affect media.
We all have witnessed the media propaganda carried by the US media and especially by CNN before the war on Iraq to market this war and strengthen president bush position from this war. President G.W. Bush said before going to war that the Iraqi people will welcome the American soldier with flowers and smiles. However The New Yorker wrote in one of its release “In April 2003, CNN aired footage of a marine in Baghdad who is confronted with a crowd of angry Iraqis. He shouts back in frustration, “Were here for your f*** freedom!” George Packer, The New Yorker, November 24, 2003. The media also focused on the possibility that iraq has weapon of mass destruction to brainwash peoples opinion on this war. However they government didnt find any proofs ”
We all have witnessed the media propaganda carried by the US media and especially by CNN before the war on Iraq, however the press was unable to adequately cover every second and provide detailed information about the war due to the management of the news and information provided by reporters. “One key example of this media failure is worth examining in greater detail. In Octobor 1990, testimony before the US house of Representatives Human Rights Caucus told of Iraqi atrocities, particularly how Iraqi soldiers had removed babies from incubators in a Kuwait Hospital and talem the incubators back to iraq and leaving the infants to die in the hospital floor. The story was dimensioned by the mainstream media and circulated quickly around the country. It became a justification cited by many people (including seven U.S. senators) for going
s to cover Iraq-related abuses; a response to the “Arab Spring” in 2008 when the Saudi government overthrew their democratically elected president, President, and then began allowing people to vote for the military overthrow as a “democracy” (“democracy” we must consider for our country) and continued doing so on September 11, 2001. A small media team (of two and a half), including former US army brigadier general Mike Flynn, and current Washington DC media consultant Richard Clarke, had spent months interviewing, documenting and reporting that the military has taken human rights violations into account by holding protests, arresting, imprisoning journalists, and even shooting at journalists that attacked journalists and did not release the detainees that day. In order to provide better information about how human rights are being violated, Flynn and Clarke made several different attempts to provide a single-payer “democracy” in Iraq. For a full account of Flynn’s work in Baghdad, see http://m.deeper.co/blogs/2011/02/10/military-bills-wonderful-story/
“The Iraq War has been the biggest mistake for the US since Vietnam. The mainstream media have failed to report, explain and then cover the real situation of Iraq.”
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While the US military’s Iraq program has been a success, it has been overshadowed by all those mistakes that have been made by the mainstream media in supporting other countries’ policies and then selling it off to the Western powers. And the media’s failure to provide the facts will lead people to believe that U.S. foreign policy has failed or that the U.S. has been unable to build momentum in other nations’ countries’ struggle to hold accountable some of the more egregious abuses and atrocities committed by American warlords and their proxies and contractors within their borders.
The 2004 coup in Spain overthrew the democratically elected President of the United Kingdom and his government. And the U.S. also has been a failure by its own leadership in terms of the role of Iraq as an international war arena. The 2006 US invasion of Iraq destroyed a country they had promised the millions of people who had fled their homes to live in and rebuilt their lives in order to become more prosperous. But since the war has ceased, the U.S. was unwilling to allow democracy and peace to take place to the full extent of the ability to prevent terrorism or other atrocities and even more so under the guise of military intervention. They’ve still been doing their best to help but all of them remain incompetent and incompetent and their “victims” are still not as free and as free to hold political discourse, press advocacy, and criticism accountable to the full extent of the freedom and autonomy that Americans have. Despite that fact, Iraq still