Media and the War

Although my no one in my immediate family is serving in Iraq, I definitely think that I have been affected by the war. My father was in the Marines and is now in the Marine Corps Reserve, but he is also a FBI agent, so he cannot be pulled to go to war. Last year however, my dad mentioned a few times that he may be going over to different places in the middle east to work. I pretty much told him that I did not want him to go, because I would constantly worry about him. I watch the news and hear about bombings of federal buildings in the middle east and people dying, and I just think about how it could be my dad. He decided not to go this year, and I really hope that he will decide not to go at all. Just recently, 4 FBI agents were injured after a bomb was thrown at a restaurant in Pakistan, one of which my dad knows. They were just eating lunch at an outdoor café, and someone throws a bomb. I think about how that could be my dad over there, and it is scary.

I try to watch the news, although it can be difficult to trust the media. I feel like we as Americans are not really getting all the information. There are few independent newspapers left, and Rupert Murdoch pretty much controls a large part of the media. He owns huge newspapers in Britain and the United States and Fox News, so all of our information is generally coming from the same place. He even owns the company that owns Myspace, so he is even controlling what young people see and read. So it is difficult to trust the media when you know that your information is coming from a select few people, who could possibly twist and bend it any way they want.