Comment Postmortem: Iraq war media coverage dazzled but it also obscured

       I think no matter when the Iraq War but was a hot topic, because Iraq War have large affected to many people. “Patriotism is never stronger or more vital than in times of war”---from the article. At the beginning of the war, everyone talked about patriotism or hope they could win in the US. In fact, I was not quite knowing about Iraq war, because I saw a lot of news were about how sad the Iraq was, and American soldiers  killed a lot of Iraq people, etc. It was the power of media. They could control what people see or hear from the news about countries, especially news about the war. After that, the reporters wrote things about the Iraq war, but they covered the truth. I did not know what Americans heard ,but in China we only got the information was American soldiers were cruel. In the article, reporter lost their confidential information, and someone saw those. After this happening, people started thinking about could they trust media? Then, I saw Americans started to publicize the peace.

    Most time, I do not believe what the media says, because most news about wars does not true. They do not want to ordinary people know their country is going have a war, or something awful. Media covers those things for calm down people’s feeling. That is what I am thinking.

Comment on How Media Coverage of Vietnam War

          I did not know much about this war. I had American history class in the high school, and some Vietnam students talked about this war, they did not express mad or any negative feeling about talking this War. I was confusing about this; because usually a bunch of students would talk about the war and how painful after the war. Even though, I was not sure they did understand the war. People said because Media to disseminate information about losses. After, Americans and Vietnams stopped the war. Many people dead in this war and both of those 2 countries losses lots things in the war.

         “The media would not just accept press releases from the government, now they began more investigative journalism to check for the truth behind the official reports.” From the article, the reporters posted pictures on the newspaper about the war. What the war brought to them? How the war destroyed their home? I think sometimes media brought the good advantages of the war, but I still do not believe of Media.

Comment of the 2 articles!

    Wag the dog shot on 1997, and It was a political comedy movie. I read those 2 article about this movie. It talks about “Media manipulation is a set of tactics used by certain individuals and groups--especially those who have enough political power or money to control the news media” ——from the article. This movie was interesting, because it showed audiences corrupt thing of the government.  In this movie, Brean was a wily person, and he knew how to manipulate the political, press and public opinion. He made the news about the war, so people could focus on the other big news but not the President harassment girl scandal.

    In my opinion, this movie used a good way to show people what was the another side of political, corruption and darkness. I believed many of countries' government have had that problems. It was a usual phenomena. Filmmaker used a funny way to show audiences. I also saw this in the article "As an example, someone may invoke patriotic distraction by saying, "You think that we should adopt a healthcare policy like they have in China. Do you really think the Chinese know better than us about healthcare?" I did not understand this part. What kind of healthcare in China? (=___=)))?!

    Sum up, those two articles talked the politicians to control the media power and used this power in the political.





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Comment of Reality Shows

         After I read two articles "Just how real are reality TV shows?" and "The real deal on reality TV". I have a thought that is reality TV show always had some problems. In the US, people love watching the reality TV shows because it is showing the story of ordinary people or how they achieved their dream. It is similar as Chinese reality TV shows and many other countries too. In the era, people do not want to watch more fancy stars who act someone else, and audiances are not satisfied with the fake stories in the TV show. They want to watch more real things are like happened in the real life than the fairy tale. That is the reason why many producers changed their thoughts about the original TV shows, and they want to find new things to attract people watch TV show again.

          At first, American TV shows have "American idol" and "Dancing with the stars" some TV shows like that. Those TV shows have the general point is all those people are ordinary. They do not famous like superstars, and they maybe has some trouble with their life or something can make audiences feel the same like themselves. Of course, people will pay it. Then, those idols would become famous, and producers also can get what they want. The common problem is "how real are reality TV". These years, many audiences found constants already chose before the show, and a lot of news like that. People found reality TV shows were not real, but why still a number of people watching this. I found a good sentence to support this thesis that is "It's just a symptom of what people want, good and bad. "It just reflects our society, nothing more.". From the "The real deal on Reality TV". I believe that few people feel the same way as those constants' experience, so they support them and want to go see their future development. A number of people may be feel fun or exciting to watch reality TV shows. At last, in my opinion no matter if is real or not, people would still watch Reality TV shows, like the article wrote "I think the danger is they're a toxin in the culture, that we can enjoy them up to a certain degree, but it's not possible to watch these shows and not be affected by them," said Kaplan.

Comment of An American Famliy

        The series was about this family in Santa Barbara, California. This documentary was showed a real American family. The authors also wish to reflect contemporary real situation from an American family, such as the article inside says "An American Family," were the subjects of a highly public sociological experiment - or, as we now commonly think of them, the first family of reality TV. " So when people look at this program will not be bored, but real, to feel inside the character's personality, as well as their real life. "The middle-class dream that you can become famous for being just who you are." from which to tell the audience see, do not need to change your personality go to famous star life.

    

      In fact, contrast and the general people's lives, ordinary people hope to become a star, like a sparkling, affluent, but also ordinary people have forgotten famous people would have helpless or some negative emotion in their reality life. The eldest son is gay, and the parents' marital problems all problems that normal people have in this documentary. But the wealthy star's life, the ordinary people can not identify with.