Maybe macbeth or some other people pretend to know the realities of war, I sure don't. It's good because there's tons of shit that never makes the nightly news -- oh okay, there's a shootout or a car chase going on somewhere, well, there's a whole war and bloodbath going on in some areas of the world. It's not like we just watch the combat videos, plenty of people such as myself like to keep in touch with the details of specific stories, whether it's Libya or Iraq or Syria. And just stumbling across some of the gory and horrific bits, well, hell, I'd rather it'd be available for everyone to see than to be censored the way cable news networks do it. I don't really consider being all that different than driving down the road and slowing down when you drive next to a horrible car accident -- everyone does it and its natural to be curious.
example -- During the first few months of the Iraq war. I think Amy Goodman or someone did a story about how the mainstream media covered it as if it were a football game -- shallow descriptions of weapons systems and drawings and charts of all the various tools available to the military. As well as the infamous "imbedded" journalists Then you go outside the mainstream, and you find really fucked up shit. Dead children, for example. Stuff that no one else was reporting, or even acknowledging the existence of.
Last edited by Spearhead (2013-01-28 04:59:18)