The Journalism and its role in the War

Through history, the American journalism always played an important role in preparing or preventing a war that its country could be planning to make. Since the Vietnam War until the gulf and the Iraq war the Journalism and the News Network was always beside the American administration in the White House.

Some thought that if they don’t support the war then they would be considered as betrayers and not patriots. Other Journalists were dismissed from their positions because they had the courage to investigate and ask for a better explanation and claim for starting a war that will cost the lives of thousands of American soldiers and civilians in the country invaded.

 

If we take the Iraqi war example, we can see that the American administration of President George Bush did make several mistakes in estimating the situation in Iraq and the possibility of having nuclear weapons under Saddam Hussein’s control. The claim that was brought to the American people was nothing more than speeches like the one that former secretary Collin Paul made in front of the United Nations. There were no material proofs of the existence of any kind of nuclear weapons or direct connections between the former Iraqi administration and terrorist organizations.

                                                                                                    

This war was supported by the media and the journalism at the beginning because everyone thought that it will be a peace of cake and a victory will be brought with the liberation of Iraq and the remaking of it to become a democratic country, but instead of doing that Iraq turned to be one of the worst places to live in and cost both its people and the American government thousands of lives and the loss of the sources that were supposed to finance the rebuilding of the destroyed Iraq.

 

I do believe that the Media and Journalism mission is to try to investigate every thing that could be investigated and to always bring the truth to the people because the pain and damage that could be caused if the media is blind is worse than the pain that could be caused because of an accusation of not being patriotic.

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