Is this the new age war? Never before has the media played such a crucial role as today. We see Bagdad bombed at night, tank battles documented by "embedded" journalists who accompany the troops, conferences in which politicians and generals brag about and illustrate successful operations, we see daancing happy "liberated" Iraqis or soldiers who wave the white flag and surrender.
Then we also see Saddam's furious speeches, Iraqi ministers who predict the "brutal end" of Us soldiers' lives. Finally TV shows us soldiers who are killed or captured literally shitting themselves and how some farmers shot down an Apache helicopter while in Bagdad dozens of people go hunt allegedly ejected pilots.

Is this something we have to accept as a negative side-effect of the overall better and more coprhensive war-news coverage? How much do thos pictures indeed affect the actual fighting? And who's doing a "better" job so far?

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this is real life man
Although media is still forced or guided by superiors that mastermind the show, they are getting more into reality so instead of denying it you need to agree to the fact that this is how real life is brought to us.

Well, that's how real war looks like. It's not just colorful dots on the map.

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Originally posted by TranceGiant Is this the new age war? Never before has the media played such a crucial role as today. We see Bagdad bombed at night, tank battles documented by "embedded" journalists who accompany the troops, conferences in which politicians and generals brag about and illustrate successful operations, we see daancing happy "liberated" Iraqis or soldiers who wave the white flag and surrender. Then we also see Saddam's furious speeches, Iraqi ministers who predict the "brutal end" of Us soldiers' lives. Finally TV shows us soldiers who are killed or captured literally shitting themselves and how some farmers shot down an Apache helicopter while in Bagdad dozens of people go hunt allegedly ejected pilots. Is this something we have to accept as a negative side-effect of the overall better and more coprhensive war-news coverage? How much do thos pictures indeed affect the actual fighting? And who's doing a "better" job so far?

i couldn't agree with you more, reporters are everywhere in the front lines- even though it is reality- i wonder weather these reporters are trained as the army is.

yes it is reality but i often wonder how much the 'news' distioorts things- what info is being held from us. i do not know about you but when reporters are asked certain questions and they say they can not comment on where exactly they are, etc. i wonder what is not being told to us. living here in america i personally prefer reading foreign newspapers, (british) i feel they give more info then american.

exactly how much propaganda is being filled in our heads thru CNN etc? i can see it in saddam's speechs and i can hear it in bush's addresses. it makes me sick, actually the whole situation makes me sick...

my 2 cents

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If I were directing an army in the battlefield, I'd tell my soldiers to shoot any and all journalists on sight. But hey, whatever floats their boat.

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yes it is reality but i often wonder how much the 'news' distioorts things- what info is being held from us

I read a story on BBC or somewhere about the soldiers passing Iraqi youths in tanks and the youths were smiling and waving. Soon after they passed, a journalist interviewed them and all of them had scowls on their faces are were extolling Hussein and casting aspersions at American forces. Two hours later I saw a story on CNN highlighting the youths cheerfuling welcoming the troops, but it made no mention of the scowls and criticisms. So, yes, the media does distort the situation quite often, but what is interesting in this scenario is that they sometimes intentionally distort them, but at times they might do it unwittingly i.e. CNN might not have even known about what the youths said after the tanks passed. We've gotta watch everything we see with a critical eye.

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Originally posted by Arbiter If I were directing an army in the battlefield, I'd tell my soldiers to shoot any and all journalists on sight. But hey, whatever floats their boat.

id second that command

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