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Name: Justin
Submitted: 12.03.01
Flesch-Kincaid Score: 69.8917328042 ?
Word Count: 449
"this is a compare and contrast essay middle school level"

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 how
fast news gets back to the U.S. It has also effected
our society by getting us informed faster, quicker,
and easier.
Presently, media has one on one interviews with
our enemies. This shows that society has grown so
accustom to reporters that our hostile enemies will
communicate through them to talk to us. In the past,
we would never communicate with our enemies until the
war was over or until they were dead.
Our media uses very different technology to
communicate about war. Media has effected our society
to where we expect to see those things on television
and to constantly get filled in on all the current
news even if it is all minutiae. Today not many people
have apathy towards media coverage. Media coverage of
wars has changed a great deal sense our last ones.
Some believe for the best and some believe for the
worst.
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