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1. 2. 3. The truth can be changed or seem bias in different ways or forms. If a leader favors one of the sides of the story, it will be seen in their ways. The government stretches the truth, not tell the whole truth, and only show certain things to make Americans look like the good guys. Some people bribe reporters to put what they want in the news. This is opinions, not truths. 4. We mention our side of the story so we look good. We made Iraq look bad because we didn't want to look bad. The whole truth is hardly ever spoken because we want to look right. __**Step 2**__ 1. Americans look like heroes and also look like they're in misery and need our help and sympathy. The people of Iraq look like their leader is terrible and they are confused and helpless. 2. Iraq has a very different culture. The major cities are Baghdad, Mosul, Basra, Irbil, and Kirkuk. Iraq's government was a dictatorship. Suddam Husien was their leader. Iraq is struggling to put a government together now that Suddam Husien is overthrown. The religion of Iraq is Secularism, Islam, Christian, and Jewish. 3. Slide 1- Iraq newspaper made it look bad. It made us look good. Slide 2- First, there's an American flag over his head and then an Iraq flag is placed over the head. In both pictures an American soldier placed the flag on his head. Slide 3- They put two pictures together to make it seem like there were more people there. Slide 4- One picture makes it look like there was a large gathering because they were zoomed in on the small group of people and the other picture shows how small the gathering really was. Slide 5- When it's zoomed out you can't tell the gathering was mainly journalists but when it's zoomed way in, you can tell the group consisted of mainly reporters. 4. The way the pictures were shown to America was zoomed in enough to make the gathering seem huge but zoomed out enough so people wouldn't know it was mainly reporters. The show the Iraq people tearing down the statue. 5. This information affected my understanding of the event by making me see that the Americans were 't the super heroes we thought they were. There might have been a lot of Iraq people upset about the government but there weren't very many people at the gathering. 6. They chose to leave out parts where the it was the American's idea to tear down the statue so they went and called people out into the street instead of a mad group of people joining together to tear down the statue. They also left out that the group was small and made mainly of journalists. 7. The images were doctored because they didn't want any American or Iraq citizens upset that they were holding the event. 8. The purpose was for it to look like the citizens of Iraq wanted their government to change just as much as the Americans. 9. The American people gain from this because it made us look like we were super heroes when we didn't do as much as everyone thinks we did. 10. Yes. Altered pictures can change history. The way it changes history is because if we had witnessed what was really taking place, we wouldn't like it very much and stand up against it and with good intentions. Iraq is now our enemy. The whole deal wouldn't have become this bad if we had known the truth from the beginning. __**Step 3**__ Slide #4 1. 2. The audiance of the first newspaper is the Detroit and the United States. The second newspaper's audiance is Spain. 3. The other side of the story that isn't told is about the people of Iraq or the people who weren't directly impacted. One ramification to not hearing the opposing side of the story is that we judge the people of Iraq before we know what they're trying to do, say, or finish. We also use weapons and soldiers based on some opinions instead of facts or the truth about what is happening somewhere else. __**Step 5**__ In war, truth is last and propaganda is first. When the media gives out information to the public, it's generally not true or doesn't contain much truth in it. Sometimes, peoples' ideas, opinions, and sides of the stories aren't heard and no one knows about them which doesn't let others know the whole truth. Also, the media and whoever is in charge of it only allows the public to know the information that they want them to know.
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 * < TV ||< entertain, inform, persuade, and sell ||
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 * < newspaper ||< entertain, inform, persuade, and sell ||
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 * Detroit News || Medium sized. The image isn't as big as El Mundo's but still fairly large. The picture is of soldiers rescueing a fellow soldier. || The color is neutral, proffesional. The font size is small and the heading size is huge. || The articles have a lot of space for information to be filled in. The size of the text is small. This gives it more prominence because there is more information to be said. ||
 * El Mundo || The image size is huge. It shows a sivilean holding an innocent citizen who died for no reason. || The color very vivid and attracts your attention. The font size is small. The heading size is medium. || The articles have little space. The size of the text is pretty small. This doesn't give it any prominence. ||

Information given to the public isn't always true or completely true. They don't want you to know the truth about what's happening, so they edit photos and change things to make it look like we're the good guys and we're in the right. An example is when our newspapers showed the crowd that was gathered in a certain veiw so it didn't look like it was truly a small group of people or that the group was made mostly of reporters and journalists. Another problem is that not everyone's side of the story is heard. If not every side is mentioned, how do people understand what's really going on? This is also in favor of the media, because they are able to cut out portions of the truth or leave things out completely. Lastly, the people in charge of the media are able to determine what's said and not said. If the person in charge doesn't like a part of the truth or doesn't want to include it, they can just cut it out of the text. Doing this doesn't get the truth out to the public and people might become bias because they believe in something that isn't true.

What does truth mean to the media? All it means pretty much is including what they want and cutting out the parts they don't like. It's still the truth, but not the //complete// truth. If the public wants the whole truth, they'll probably have to do research. If the media had told the //complete// truth, we might not be enemies with Iraq or the smaller groups located in it.