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4 pages in length. Media coverage is something that cannot be avoided in today's technological society. It used to be that high profile news stories would be broadcast after the incident had occurred, along with every other bit of news that merited a position in the top story lineup; now, however, news agencies are not only reporting directly from ground zero of a given event but also serving to detrimentally impact the truth of the situation by such invasive infiltration. Nowhere is this more apparent than with regard to contemporary war efforts. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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had occurred, along with every other bit of news that merited a position in the top story lineup; now, however, news agencies are not only reporting directly from ground zero
of a given event but also serving to detrimentally impact the truth of the situation by such invasive infiltration. Nowhere is this more apparent than with regard to contemporary
war efforts. Robert Fisk, reporter for The Independent takes his own industry to task for glossing over important details pertaining to and resulting from the war on terrorism, while at
the same time coming to the journalistic aid of those Iraqis whose lives have lost any value as far as Americans are concerned. It does not take much to
replicate Fisks point of view in any number of publications, given the fact that he represents a thorn in the much of the industrys side as an enemy sympathizer who
has lost any real perspective of why America is at war. In fact, claims Fisk, he is the only one who actually looks at the war through anything but
rose-colored glasses and, thereby, recognizes and reports more than the sensationalized facts most of the mass media churn out on a daily basis. Those who support the atypical stance
of those like Fisk, however, have the courage to step up to the journalistic plate and identify such discomfiture. "...It has been a moral disgrace that the military hasnt
conducted and reported body counts or even estimates of people killed--all part of an effort to portray the U.S. invasion as a charitable mission to bring democracy to the Iraqi
people in an antiseptic war targeting only insurgents" (La Londe 34). In Freed Iraqis Still Waiting for the Wind of Change, Fisk accuses his own countrymen of shirking their
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