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Web Quest The War on Terror Step 1 1. a) Youtube, news, radio, internet, wikipedia, and advertising. b)To entertain, inform, and persuade could all be purposes of those website's media. c) The media is influenced by social, political, and economic events by who is in control of it and what events occur and how jurastic they are. d) The effects of those not represented is probably not going to be portrayed well and there for they can be seen as the bad guy.

Step 2 2. A) The war is portrayed that the Americans are their to liberate Iraq but it was set up and it made us the good guys and made the Iraqis look happy that we were there. b)Some major cities are Baghdad and Felusia. Their major religion is Islam. Their government leader was Suddam Hussien. c)They are both portraying that the crowd was larger than it was and it is portraying that we we liberating them. d)They were zoomed in to make the crowd look larger than it was and they gathered up people to make it seem like we were helping them. e)This info changed how I thought we were their to help. I still think they were but it made me realize there is still propoganda in America. f) The media and soldiers both made it seem like we were the good guys and had a bunch of people there to portray that. They showed us helping them take down the statue to give the view that we are the good guys. g) The images were doctored I think to help portray that we were the good guys even though it was propoganda. h) it served the purpose of giving us false information to portray them well. I)Our government gains from altering the pictures. J) I do think that an altered image can change history because if we do something bad or wrong and we don't know about it our view of the war would be different than if we knew what was actually going on over their.

Step 3 A) They have chosen to put large images to draw attention to the article and take up space. The other news paper on slide 5 showed a picture of the statue and had more words in the article. The both have very big font size and both have the color red. The size of the first article was rather small not including the photo and this is showing our importance over their. The other article gives more info on the war over their to show that we may not be helping. b) The U. S. citizens are the audiences for the news papers c) The people not being represented are the iraqi soldiers that do not have their view in. It is just the Americans and the Iraqi citizens.

Step 5 A) Is truth always the first casualty of war? Three reasons that I think that this statement is true are one, because country's use propaganda. Second, because who ever is in control of the media controls what people know. And third because not everyone's side of the story gets heard. For these reasons I believe that that statement is true.

The first reason that I believe this statement is true is because countries use propaganda. When a country wants to portray another country or party as bad they use Propaganda. Propaganda is something that people use to inform people of something that may not be entirely true and can change their view on an issue such as war. The second reason that I think this is who ever is in control of the media controls what people know. When we took down the statue of Saddam the media portrayed it like everyone was so happy we were there which had some truth to it but they exaggerated it to the point that everyone was tricked. When in reality it was staged to seem like the but the majority of the people there were soldiers and reporters. The last reason that I agree with this is that not everyone's side of the story gets heard. When the newspapers and videos came out only our point of view was told here and only their point of view was told there. This caused everyone to believe different things that were not necessarily true and it caused a big war that involved more countries than it should have. None of these things would have probably happened if everyone knew the truth about everything going on but since they didn't propaganda got the best of us and now we have been in a war with them for over 10 years.

There are many reasons that this statement may or may not be true but I think it is and here are my reasons for believing it. All I know is that if the truth was told a lot of this stuff would have never happened and we would not be in a war for this long.