O tym, że telewizja może swobodnie manipulować image, information, emotions and ultimately consumers, we all know. In one of the earlier notes Berry she mentioned a movie Wag the Dog, where the media in order to save the honor of U.S. President distract the audience from the scandal by creating a fictitious image of the war. As claimed by German philosopher Wolfgang Welsch , electronic media can deform the image, creating the effect of "unreal reality". A few days ago marked the 35th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam. (30 April 1975), so it's important in this context discuss the role that media played in the war in Indochina. This conflict is
(so far) the largest military and moral defeat in U.S. history. Contributed to a large extent the presence of media at the front, returning a direct relationship with the fighting and demonstrating (often in a tendentious and biased) events in Vietnam. Americans could see at the dinner table with my own eyes massive losses among American soldiers at the minimal achievements of the military and the enormous expenditure on used weapons during the conflict. This contributed directly to the mass occurrences of anti-war movements in the U.S., which entailed a gradual withdrawal of Americans from Indochina. It is not sensitive or aware of the socio-political boycott led to military action, but that's television, with its unreal represented reality.
Even after the conflict were raised voices that the media distorted the true picture of the communist offensive, falsifying the facts and presenting a biased impression of stressing defeat the Americans and their Vietnamese allies. Among the critics included, in particular the military and politicians, not capable of hide the disappointment anti-war rhetoric of the press and television.
Last reviewing wykop.pl I found an article about the famous "photograph, which lost the war" . It became her photo taken Feb. 1, 1968 year in Saigon by a journalist with The Associated Press Eddie Adams. It presents a South Vietnamese police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan killing a captured Viet Cong officer with a revolver shot in the head. The photo was clearly interpreted - that is drawn into a war machine, devoid of humane feelings cop kills unarmed man. In a further part of the article the author explains what is really seen in the infamous photographs. Two days earlier - January 30, 1968 Viet Cong with the regular army of North Vietnam's Tet Offensive conducted, whose main aim was the eradication of all "traitors," or people cooperating with the Americans. First of all, the South Vietnamese Army soldiers and police officers and their families. If you know these facts, the pronunciation changed photography forever.
At the end, as usual, something nice and intertextual. This time the video segment Across The Universe with a piece of Strawberry Fields Forever Beatles . my opinion, personal, subjective, etc. etc. This is probably the most original and blunt metaphor for the war expressed through song. Feel free to watch and challenge my opinion: D
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