Military Power

I'm just wondering, has the U.S. won any wars since the Media started joining combat troops in war? Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, ect. Seems to me that the media could be considered enemy combatants, since all they seem to present is the death of war, not the after effects of rebuilding and the fact that Most of the population wants the troops there. By doing so, it effectively turns the home population into pacifists. Now, I can't say that is entirely the media people's fault as the population seems to forget that in war, people die (on BOTH sides).

This is one of the main reasons why I do not watch FoxNews or CNN...it's because of their ignorance towards providing the CORRECT story. You turn on either channel, and all you see is vehicles on fire, and other devastation which turn the general public towards no support for the effort. Now what always bothered me was that FoxNews is the Conservative party's news network, however from what I've seen, they aren't doing a good job of giving their leader (President Bush) a good image for the war effort. They have done more damage to their own party over the last 8 years than any Democrate could do...and Bill O'Reily can try and factor that.

If the media was not allowed into Vietnam back in the 60's, Kent State would have never happened, U.S. soldiers would have been welcomed back in loving arms such as WW2, rather than having fruits and vegetables thrown at them, and maybe this war would be going a little bit better than what it is now (as far media coverage).

Now if there is a media network which does the best job at being the "less-biased", that would be the BBC.

So, here is the inevitable question, if the media of today (and/or Vietnam) was around in WWII, would the Allies still have won, or would the citizens back home not tolerated it?

Spazz Maticus wrote:So, here is the inevitable question, if the media of today (and/or Vietnam) was around in WWII, would the Allies still have won, or would the citizens back home not tolerated it?

That would all depend if the media had the technology at the time to show what they wanted to show, to get the best reaction. In WW2, most people didn't have a tv and relied on newspapers or the radio.

Not associated with war, but applies none the less.

Now that the presidential election business has been pretty much settled in much of the media and Barack Obama has obviously won, we can get down to the next political game at hand: guessing who's going to make up his administration's team.

Source: LA Times

I enjoy how the media decides things for America, not the American people. I guess we really don't need this stupid election thing, lets just let the MEDIA decide for us. You know, come to think of it, why do we even need a president, or Congress for that matter? The media can make all the decisions for us. Why does the media need to "guess" who will make up his team, don't they decide that for him?

Maximus the Destroyer wrote:I enjoy how the media decides things for America, not the American people. I guess we really don't need this stupid election thing, lets just let the MEDIA decide for us. You know, come to think of it, why do we even need a president, or Congress for that matter? The media can make all the decisions for us. Why does the media need to "guess" who will make up his team, don't they decide that for him?

I think McCain saw that one coming. The media was all over who was going to be his running mate, and they were dead set on former PA Gov. Tom Ridge (my state's hero). Everything looked as though he was going to be running for VP (from the media's standpoint) and then 'WAMMO!', out of no where here comes Alaskan Gov. Palin. Then, of course, the media was set up 'Who is she and where did she come from?'

Mind you, I'm all for freedom of the press, but this is just stupid.

Our problem is that our country's politicians feed on media coverage of themselves and whoever they are running against. So as long as the media has that on their side, their continuing race to overwhelm American citizens with pointless garbage will never end.