Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Propaganda 4 Corner Reflection
Deception is just as bad as telling an outright lie.
From my point of view, this statement is pretty true, and portrays and accurate definition of lie according to several ethic views, and also according to a religious perspective. Therefore, I strongly agree with this statement since I believe that even if the outcome of deception is positive and has proper, and good intentions, it has to be considered a lie that does not show the reality that is out there.
As an example, the propaganda of the 2003 war clearly shows an example of deception used to portray a situation that is actually fabricated by Hollywood film experts, and media corporations. As the second British secretary of war pointed out, the use of a specific situation that is portrayed as an amazing heroic achievement of the American army, only portrays the image that the war is being a success for the American camp. This new was manipulated as the doctors attending the rescued American soldier pointed out, so that the American population received a complete opposite message that portrayed a different situation than the actual situation in the war.
It is reasonable that a country obviously wants to also inform of the achievements of the army in a war, but there a different intention when an event is manipulated an made look more important and heroic than it actually was, in order to portray an image that is not real to the population of your country. The soldier that was injured and kept in the hospital of Iraq received a good attention and treatment that was not being included in the new report, while also many unnecessary maneuvers were carried out by the American government just for the media in order to obtain a good piece of film that could portray this illusion.
Finally many British war historians argue that the actual situation of the American army in the Iraq war of 2003 was completely opposite to what they were portraying in their Tv news, also adding that several strategic events had been a complete failure. Therefore as conclusion I believe that the truth has to be provided no matter what the situation is in a war, having the people believing in a false illusion is a double edged sword that will definitely affect trust on media.
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Well done bro. What makes you not strongly agree with this statement?. In my perspective, deception tends to 100% of the time be equivalent to an outright lie since you make people believe in something not true and make them lie to themselves. I do agree with the conclusion you made and agree with the points you wrote
ReplyDeleteMy point of view on the prompt that you chose would be extremely similar to yours. It was interesting to read how you related the prompt to the documentary that we watched as well as the article. Keep it up Simon
ReplyDeleteVery good blog post. I really liked how you focused on the "heroic" portrayal of the American army and then offered a different perspective. Your argument was consistently supported by the core example of the Iraqi war and was very interesting to read. I do agree with your thoughts on this topic and how the truth must be provided to the public in order to offer a sense of reality over illusion.
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