Do the press control these wars?

Davey Jones

Davey Jones

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Was thinking about these past 4-5 wars the U.S. is involved in...
You notice more and more of the journalists,photographers,free freelancers are getting kind of personally involved with high ranking soldiers and refugees.
They only show pictures of screaming Mothers,wounded/cripple kids. bombing ,killings,showing buildings being bombed BEFORE those bombs actually hit their targets.(how do they do that?)
The question is what are these people REALLY contributing to these wars?
Do these constant press reports influence the planners(Generals/POTUS) of these wars?
I wonder if these wars would be over quicker if the media/press were not involved or "imbedded" with the troops.

WW2 was a totally different war that got
some media attention compared to Iraq today.
 

Here is a short youtube video showing the CNN reporter filming the news segment, and joking around wiht the rest of the crew on the set. Later, you see how it looked when CNN actually aired the news report, with all the staged sound effects and everything else going on in the background.
It is pretty silly, they show one reporter wearing a flak jacket to protect himself, and the other reporter shows up with kind of a helmet. If it was that dangerous, why didn't they both have on the jackets and helmets ?

http://youtu.be/jTWY14eyMFg
 
There is so much media now that it is highly competitive. Thus some fudging goes on by some...
 
Davey Jones said:
.......Do these constant press reports influence the planners(Generals/POTUS) of these wars?
I wonder if these wars would be over quicker if the media/press were not involved or "imbedded" with the troops.

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You know who influences the wars? Corporations, specifically the oil and gas industry, and government and military officials who have an agenda. These things are planned, often years ahead of the event. I don't know if I can post videos yet so I'll tell you which one you should look at if you want to 'hear it from the horse's mouth'.

Look for a Youtube video called "General Wesley Clark talks on Middle East destabilization planned since 1991". He was giving the talk somewhere in 2007 I believe. And in it, he talks about some Pentagon official telling him that they had decided to take out a group of Middle East governments. Syria, Iran, Iraq, Aghanistan and....gosh, can't remember the last one. But they decided that (1991) before 9/11.

And the press is controlled as needed, by AIPAC (who also exert enormous influence over the American government) to tell stories in ways that they deem appropriate. So while you may see photos of grief stricken or angry Gaza mothers with wounded children, you will rarely hear the reasons why they are angry, even while you hear continually about 'the rockets and self protection'.

So no, the press doesn't lead the government, they just report the side the government tells them and since journalism 'is dead' the chances of seeing the whole truth on the major news outlets or chances of them holding officials feet to the fire in interviews, is slim to none. Helen Thomas was one of the last real journalists and she got away with that kind of questioning for years, until she overstepped the line and pointed an accusatory finger at a 'friend' of the government. And then she was hounded out of the business. And I also think that the few news outlets are owned by billionaires who travel in the same circles as, or at least the same socio-economic strata of society as the government officials and lobbyists and corporate giants and that they are all looking out for 'their own' and in some cases, this means giving us (news) that amounts to only part of the truth.
 
Thanks Davey. People think that they're getting the full story when they listen to the news, but they aren't and combined with our short memories (which gets shorter as we age), we forget what came before that new moment. And the politicians count on this. And the modern phenomena of 24 hour news cycles and attention spans of gnats (ours that is!), and they all too often get away with it.

Sorry for the rant(s), but government issues get under my skin a bit.

Anyway, thanks for the compliment. Hope you have a nice evening.
 

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