Media Coverage Of The Gulf War

Gulf War 1991

The Gulf War was a heavily televised war. For the first time people all over the world were able to watch live pictures of missiles hitting their targets and fighters taking off from aircraft carriers and bases. The showing of this war on television with live coverage of people being killed and destruction of another country was horrific. Two musicians who had an attitude toward the war and influential television were Mark Knopfler and Micheal Franti & The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. Yet some people felt the Gulf War being picked up by the media in mass numbers was good because one could have live, instantaneous updates of war action. The media coverage of the war was harmful to the United States people, because it was
The live coverage was new in its instantaneousness. News companies gained much popularity for their coverage, because the American people where very interested in this landmark event of the early nineteen-nineties. By the United States people have seen the destruction of another country; it makes them feel dominant, powerful and in a controlling position. The public needs to know they are the superpower of the world. The night vision missile attacks shown on television illustrate the military tactics, strength and experience of the American troops. Iraq was put to shame(Duffy 52). The war was finished in a quick month and a half (Fisher) .Without the war being televised many programmes would not even bother thinking about what was going on outside their homes, especially in another country. News stations felt the public needed to see what exactly went on in the Gulf War; therefore televising night vision missile attacks was a positive for
The nation was under the influence of one drug. That was how the song got its name “Television, the Drug of the Nation”. The ‘drug’ symbolizes anything that was undesirable in the nation’s society. Lyrics spit through the rhymes of Franti’s mouth show that he was strongly opposed to the side against putting forth war, murder and sex on television (Fitz). An example was in the Heroes ' best number, "Television, the Drug of the Nation," Franti raps, "Imagination is sucked out of our children by a cathode ray nipple / Television is the only wet-nurse that would create a cripple." Through the social activism of this one musician and band, people were reminded of the things they were letting their children watch. Television was breeding ignorance into the brains of children and the