Japanese Internment
Japanese Internment
Today’s media coverage of the war in Iraq is very similar to the coverage of the Japanese Internment camps in respect that the government of then and now controls media coverage. The government dictates what will be said and to what extreme it will be presented. For instance, on network news stations such as CNN, MSNBC, and FOX news, the story of the war in Iraq will always look like the American government is liberating, not occupying, when in reality we are not only despised by the people of Iraq, but a majority of the world as well. These three networks will never tell us that because the government will not allow it. These network news establishments are the propaganda of our government and of George Bush’s administration.
During World War II in the days following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the American government stressed the urgency to detain all Japanese people on the west coast, in the name of national security. It is very similar to......
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