remember the maine. ship blew up from inside the ammo stores but the papers picked up on it and turned it into the spanish attacking a us war ship. public was outraged demanded blood.
news is colored too much by the journalists that report it. there is always interjected into every report personal beliefs and views. thanks to tv, we know the field reporters in a war zone. we think this is brave and that this is a good person for doing what they are doing. why are they doing it? to have a nice cushy job behind a safe desk in new york. no one in their right mind would go into a war with a camera to get a story. they might head in after the shooting stops to get it, interview people that were there, that kind of thing, but there's no reason to be in the thick of it.
because they are in the thick of it, and because they are the eyes for us back home, they become ideal targets. if you're trying to get a point across, the person you're trying to get it across to has to see it.
on the nukes, well, knowing that there could be no winners must have an impact on it too. |
