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.