Difference Between Today’s Media Coverage on the War and Past Media

Over different wars, media has progressed in its

technology to show viewers more coverage. It has

given us a chance to see a war thousands of miles a

way on their living room television. It shows us

things that are going on around the world, that at one

time took months and know only take seconds. Coverage

has changed a great deal sense our previous wars.

In today’s war, we can turn on our television and

see bombs getting dropped on Afghanistan. In our past

wars, we would never see any coverage of the war on

our television. Today we can see war coverage on many

channels. Before, we were lucky to get pictures and

even then they might be distorted. Society has been

effected by this, because they want to be informed

about the war, and they dont want to see just

pictures. I also believe they want to get a feel for

what it is like in Afghanistan.

In the past, it may have taken a long time for

news to get back to the United States. Today, we can

turn the television on any time of the day and watch

the war coverage. A channel such as CNN covers it

twenty- four hours a day, seven days a week. It took

many months for stories to get back to the U.S. in our

past. Media has effected our society by making it

impossible for a government leader to make a decision

on anything with out public opinion because of