For the final project, I’m thinking about doing a research paper about the media coverage of the Iraq War. It’s not because I’m very interested in this event, but more because I was in France in 2003 and I was surprised to see how the French Media and the US media covered the same event so differently.
Indeed when the war started, I closely watched the news as everybody. It was the main subject at school also. My teachers asked us to watch the international news, more specifically the US news because France and the US were like enemies when U.S decided to declare the war to Iraq.
I wanted to understand why French people were so against this war while American people supported the war.
I finally found out that the information that we were given in France and the images that we saw on TV were quietly different from the one in the US.
I was just thinking about another example: The war between Israel and Palestine, one more time two different point of view in France and Here in the U.S. The U.S were more Pro Israel, and in France we were more on the other side. The Medias are used to support one of these positions. But it shouldn’t be like this. The media should give to the audience an objective view about such horrible events they should communicate the real facts and to cover everything. Instead of picking this image or the other depending on the position of the government.
In taking the Iraq war in example , I want to underline the importance to really have a critical eye on what the medias communicate to us . If in 2003 everybody around the world had watched the same news, maybe the Iraq war would never happened…. For me it’s scary to see how powerful can be the medias and the governments understand and use it very well…It’s not the first time that the Propaganda leads people to support a war….. and not the last time if we still continue to believe everything we see.
Indeed when the war started, I closely watched the news as everybody. It was the main subject at school also. My teachers asked us to watch the international news, more specifically the US news because France and the US were like enemies when U.S decided to declare the war to Iraq.
I wanted to understand why French people were so against this war while American people supported the war.
I finally found out that the information that we were given in France and the images that we saw on TV were quietly different from the one in the US.
I was just thinking about another example: The war between Israel and Palestine, one more time two different point of view in France and Here in the U.S. The U.S were more Pro Israel, and in France we were more on the other side. The Medias are used to support one of these positions. But it shouldn’t be like this. The media should give to the audience an objective view about such horrible events they should communicate the real facts and to cover everything. Instead of picking this image or the other depending on the position of the government.
In taking the Iraq war in example , I want to underline the importance to really have a critical eye on what the medias communicate to us . If in 2003 everybody around the world had watched the same news, maybe the Iraq war would never happened…. For me it’s scary to see how powerful can be the medias and the governments understand and use it very well…It’s not the first time that the Propaganda leads people to support a war….. and not the last time if we still continue to believe everything we see.
Little Translation!!Pourquoi? = Why?
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Great topic! im not being sarcastic either...
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"it’s not the first time that the Propaganda leads people to support a war….. and not the last time if we still continue to believe everything we see."
Propaganda is used in Every War... it doesnt matter if the cause is "just" or not its like Louie mentioned "One mans terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"
a good example is World War 1 and 2 you should look into the propaganda used then on both sides of the conflict