The reason that we don't see anti-war people in the mainstream media is because the media is trying to push their agenda and anti-war thoughts are against it. It's the same reason why on CNN republicans are hated and and they rave about how great the democrats are and on Fox news they rave about how great the Republicans are and how bad the Democrats are. Every media outlet has there own narrative and they will continue to push that narrative and thats it. That's why it's so hard to trust the media nowadays. It's hard to tell if they are just telling you what you want to hear and not reporting both sides of the story or if they are actually telling you the truth. An example of this is the video we saw in class about the Baghdad airstrike in 2007. The website Wikileaks were very selective in there editing and made sure to slow down the video to show us the men carrying cameras but they didn't take the time to put out that at least one of the men in that group was carrying an AK-47 and another one of those men were carrying a grenade launcher that was clearly visible as the weapon ran about two thirds the length of the man's body. When I first watched that video it looked like they just opened fire on a bunch of harmless people but if you do more digging you'd see that these people were a threat and were holding deadly weapons.
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