It's funny, but I never trusted most of the news reports from the original Gulf War (not the current Gulf War II: Doin' it for Daddy). Tonight a program about media and government lies reminded me all about it. Some of the pictures triggered memories of having seen them before.
Ahh, the media and war...
Stock footage, no actual coverage of on-the-ground-in-the-war-zone events, prepackaged Pentagon clips, surgical, clean and zero death. Unlike the Viet Nam war reporting...
Oh, but we get a soundtrack for the war now. We get some nice music for the wars these days. Hey, let's watch some people having the f*ck bombed out of them while listening to some inspiringly snazzy imperial music! Yay! Break out the popcorn!
The government telling the media to not broadcast. People getting fired for showing footage. Never showing war for what it really is. How can you show the battlefield as a clean and non-violent environment, anyway?? How does that work?
Oh, nothing like manipulating the truth, too. We're marching down a highway of death, so who needs the truth? Who needs freedom of the press?
As a journalist, this depresses me so badly (and as a human). Sometimes I'm so ashamed of the media and being some part of it.
The truth. How hard is it?
*BTW, click on the image to enlarge - I love a political cartoon in the morning...
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