Modern Media Coverage of D-Day?

[Aristotle]

This is an interesting video.

D-Day: Crisis On Omaha

A rather adept indictment of our modern media and the way they cover news.

I think a lot of the problems highlighted by this bit of satire is more the result of an excess of ratings-driven television news rather than planned media bias (although the entrenched, institutional media bias helps).

[Darion]

I thought the bit with the college professor was particularly funny.

I put very little stock in the things I hear from the mainstream media due to the shameless bias inherent in the system. It's more work than simply believing everything I hear, but far more satisfying.

[Gadiantor]

I had to laugh as I watched that video. The satire perfectly illustrates what is wrong with the media today.

[Maelgrim]

Crappy acting, but BRILLIANT message. I'm actually quite pissed off now.

I hope more stuff like that gets spread around and reminds the soy-latte sipping, tofu eating hippy intellectuals that they're nothing but armchair experts, and thus would best serve their country by keeping their political agendas to theirselves while our men and women are off kicking ass in a foreign land so they can have the luxury of continuing to worry about paying off their platinum amex.

Isn't there some kind of law against demoralizing troops during wartime? Hell, I say we do the white feather thing. Someone mail a dead goose to bono, and cold-cock Michael moore while you're at it. Hell, give 'em all a set of DCPU and an F88 and see how fucking willing to bag it all out when it's them on the front.

Fucking clowns.

[Jolen]

Alot of this started with McNamara in Vietnam, thinking that by showing the 'numbers,' you could prove you were winning the war. What works in business, doesn't work in warfare. This took off in the media and grew into what we see today. So it wasn't the 'soy-latte sipping, tofu eating, hippy intellectuals' that started this, but are rather the product of a failed government political strategy to get behind a vague war.

The media is only part of the issue. Americans, in general, are not prepared for extended wars and their consequences. The "average" war that America has been involved with have lasted between several months to half a dozen years. Vietnam is the only real exception to this and you can see what happened with that. It is difficult to get Americans, in general, to continue supporting a war that is not speedy, especially when the goals for the war are vague.

People cringe when they see in the news, whatever the bias, that Americans are dying. Of course we do. We are a people who generally place a high value on life. It is both a blessing and a curse. The people who oppose America violently know this and do not try to "win" a war with America, but rather bleed us until the people at home have had enough. I do not think this would change if all bias was removed from the media beginning with this evening's news broadcasts. People will still be horrified by hearing of American casualties and eventually stop supporting any action that would result in more casualties. This is more of a social issue, than a political bias issue. Though, political bias does add flames to the fire.