It’s amazing really to see how the media turned its back on the War in Afghanistan and Iraq. While our troops are still getting deployed on their next tour of duty, while families are being shattered, soldiers killed and wounded the media has nothing better to do than to deliver us 24/7 coverage of the election. Certainly the election is important, but it’s not as important as keeping attention to the issues the US is currently involved in. When we began invading Iraq all you could hear on TV was “embedded journalists”. Now the war seems so far away, the media has turned its back and is ultimately more detached than it ever was.
I went to several news outlets and checked their whole website for a category called “War” or perhaps “Iraq” - there’s no such thing. There is a category called “Middle East” however there’s nothing categorized as “War”. Another category I was looking for was “Support Our Troops” and perhaps some information on how citizens can support their troops. None of this is the case and if you look at the headlines on each of these sites, you wouldn’t even think anything bad is going on in this country.
It just shows how worthless our media really is. The right wingers are always decrying the fact that we have such a liberal media. What planet are you living on that you think this? Our media was instrumental in delivering the information to the American people that drove us to war. It was them who featured one military analyst after another in order to fill up as much air time as possible with the war. Now the war is “out” and the media doesn’t seem to think that it’s important to the American people what’s going on in the “middle east”.
We keep losing soldiers, we keep killing more Iraqi civilians and the saddest part is that the objective of somehow keeping this country safe has been completely missed.
When will the media cover what we want to see?
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