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sources of media: youtube-entertain and inform radio- inform, entertain, to sell twitter-entertain and inform facebook- entertain and inform tv-entertain, inform, persuade, to sell newspaper- inform, persuade, sell, entertain phones- sell, entertain, inform, persuade news casts/shows- inform and entertain blogs- persuade, inform, entertain magazines- entertain, sell, inform books-entertain, inform movie-entertain internet-inform, entertain, to sell, sometimes persuad 3. If a leader favors a certain side of the story they will portray the situation in their views. It is very biased, they will try to get people to see it their way. The government can portray their veiws, censure certain information and pictures, stretch the truth, and can make the american people seem like that we are the good guys. Socially certain political leaders are portrayed a certain way to either distroy their image or help it. Economically people can make a product seem good so others will buy it when really it's horrible. People sometimes bribe the reporters to only put what they want others to see in the news. This kind of information is full of opinions not the truth. 4. We only say our side of the story so we look good. We made iraq look bad because we didn't want to be proven wrong by our people or their people. The whole truth is never spoken so it looks like we are right. __** Step 2 **__ 1. The Americans are portrayed as hero's and look like they are in misery and need sympathy. The Iraq people are portrayed like they need a new leader and they are confused and helpless. 2. Iraq has a very different culture. The major cities are Baghdad, Mosul, Basra, irbil, and kirkuk. Suddam Hussien was their leader. Iraq's government was a dictatorship. Iraq is struggling to put a government together now that Suddam Hussien is overthrown. The religion of Iraq is secularism, Muslim, Islam, christian, and Jewish. 3. Picture one- Iraq newspaper made it look like it was bad. It made us look good. picture two-there was an American flag over his head, but then there was an Iraq flag placed on his head. An American placed both flags. picture three- They really were tearing down the statue, but they zoomed in to make it seem like more people than there really was. picture four- They zoomed out to show from a distance that you couldn't tell that they were journalists, but zoomed in you can tell that the crowd was mainly journalists. 4. They put the camera at the angle to where you couldn't see that it was made up of journalists. They showed the Iraq people on the camera tearing down the statue. They zoomed in to show more people, but also they were zoomed out enough so you couldn't tell that the crowd was mainly Americans and journalists. 5. This effect changed my opinion on the event because the whole thing was fake. There might have been a lot of Iraq people upset about the government, but not as many people as we were told to believe. 6. They left out that they called everyone out onto the street.Also that Americans staged an event. It was the Americans idea to tear down the statue. 7. They didn't want the american or iraq citizens to be disapointed or upset that they were staging the event. 8. The purporse was to make it look like the iraq citizens wanted the government to change as well the americans. 9. The people who gain from this was the american people because it made us look like we were helping more than we actually were. 10. Yes, distored news casts, pictures, and stories can change history. The way it changes history is if we had really seen what was going on we wouldn't be happy and protest the war even more, but with good reasons this time. We have gained an enemy of iraq. This whole thing wouldn't have gone to such and extreme if we had only known the truth. __**Step 3**__ The slide we have is 4. 1.
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 * Detroit News || The image size is medium sized. Not as big as El Mundo's but still fairly large. The picture is of soldiers rescueing an injured fellow soldier. || The color of the image is a nuetral color, proffesional. Font size small. Heading size huge. || The articles are given a lot of space for information to be filled in. The size of the text is very small. This gives it more prominence because there is more to be said. ||
 * El Mundo || The image size is huge. The picture is of a sivilean holding an innocent citizen who died for no reason. || The color of the image is very vivid gets your attention. Font size small. Heading size medium. || The articles are given very little space. The size of the text is pretty small. This does not give it prominence. ||

2. The audiance of the first newspaper is the untied states, detroit. The second newspaper's audiance is spain. 3. The side of the story that is not represented is the iraqi people or people who are not directly impacted. One ramification to not hearing their side of the story is we are judgeing the iraqi people before we know what they are really trying to do, say, or accomplish. Also we act against their people with weapons and soldiers based on opinions instead of facts or what is really happening in that particular time and place. In a war truth is the first thing to be lost. The government and news reporters stretch the truth so that the citizens find it a good thing to go over and help win a country back, but it's all propaganda. Media can change how a person thinks. I thought that what we were doing over in Iraq was a good thing and I've hated the Iraqi people ever since, but I was wrong we weren't helping as much as we were hurting.
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The media can portray anything and make us think the way they want us to depending on what they show us. One way the false media affected us was, we probably wouldn't have entered a war and stayed in the war for so long if we had known the truth. If we had known that we were hurting more than we were helping then we would've pulled out of the war. The media portrayed that we were helping, we stayed and fought a battle that wasn't ours to fight. If the government hadn't said that they had weapons of mass destruction, when they didn't, then other countries along with ours wouldn't have joined. Other countries joined along side with the Americans because they thought that the Iraqi people had weapons of mass destruction so they had to jump in to help when it wasn't needed. The Americans being over in Iraq weren't even needed. A lot of people died when they didn't have to. If we hadn't have gone into war then many lives wouldn't have lost but because of prejudice we went to fight based on false accusations. Many soldiers and Iraqi people would still be with us if we had only chosen to look at facts, show the truth, and not let the media control what we think.

What is the truth? Truth is something that is always the first to go in a fight based on revenge. We went over in Iraq and killed thousands of Innocent lives all based on a few powerful people's opinions. We went in to help fight a countries battle that wasn't ours to fight. I believe that even though the media was all propaganda I can understand why they did it.