Difference Between Today’s Media Coverage on the War and Past Media
By: Mike • Essay • 401 Words • November 16, 2009 • 1,402 Views
Essay title: Difference Between Today’s Media Coverage on the War and Past Media
Over different wars, media has progressed in its
technology to show viewers more coverage. It has
given us a chance to see a war thousands of miles a
way on their living room television. It shows us
things that are going on around the world, that at one
time took months and know only take seconds. Coverage
has changed a great deal sense our previous wars.
In today’s war, we can turn on our television and
see bombs getting dropped on Afghanistan. In our past
wars, we would never see any coverage of the war on
our television. Today we can see war coverage on many
channels. Before, we were lucky to get pictures and
even then they might be distorted. Society has been
effected by this, because they want to be informed
about the war, and they dont want to see just
pictures. I also believe they want to get a feel for
what it is like in Afghanistan.
In the past, it may have taken a long time for
news to get back to the United States. Today, we can
turn the television on any time of the day and watch
the war coverage. A channel such as CNN covers it
twenty- four hours a day, seven days a week. It took
many months for stories to get back to the U.S. in our
past. Media has effected our society by making it
impossible for a government leader to make a decision
on anything with out public opinion because of