Keeping war hidden

Thinking about our earlier post on this blog and reading someone's previous blog "war porn" I have realized how much our own media tries to show little media coverage due to the sensitivity level of viewers. However, after discussion in class and critical thinking with our past post we have come to realize that war is everywhere. How you can take a simple movie, book, or television show and turn it into something about war.  I also think its quite odd that the media tries to show little coverage due to the sensitivity but yet people will run to the movie theature the second a new war movie comes out that'll be based on real current or past events. Why is it that we can watch a movie that can be a true story but we can't watch the true story on television as it is happening? Do a lot of us really enjoy "war porn"? Is that why we are so addicted to movies when they come out or is it that since the media shuts us off from the viewing these images of war that we are even more excited to go to the theatures? We can walk out of a movie theater about war and be like wow that was a great movie but have no sympathy towards the actual story but yet we feel bad when we see something on the media. All of this has really opened my eyes to see that even if you don't want to be involved in war or know of no one in a war you are still faced with it everyday, even if its through a simply show on television or reading a book that has nothing to do with war.