Spilling Blood With Oil In Iraq

On reading this article entitled "Spilling blood with oil in Iraq", i have realised that the mass media does not always tell the truth. The purpose of this article is to present that fact and in addition, show us that the media also frabricate more lies to cover up false information. Many people think that what the media shows is everything that is going on, and they do not bother to delve deeper into the situation to reason out what is right and wrong. These people can hardly be blamed for doing so, since it requires a high level of understanding and professional skills of in-depth analysis.
Taking this article for example, the media only tells us half of the story, or more specifically, the good things that they want us to hear so as to generate a perceived truth in our minds that the US was right in initiating the war and made minimal mistakes while fighting in it. Yet, if we were to learn about the other half of the story, the real truth, our impression of US as the "hero" would drastically change. Everyone knows that the war was started due to fears that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), yet years after the war had ended, these WMD have not been found. People will then start to think if it was folly on US's part. However, President Bush tries to cover up this mistake by continuing with his pretence that Iraq has the WMD but they are just not found yet.
This article has mentioned several instances of the media trying to cover up errors of the US during the war. For example, US forces have attacked, killed and injured Iraqi civilians but the blame was pushed to diguised Iraqi soldiers to taint the reputation of the US. However, there was no evidence to back up this claim. In another case, it was said that US prisoners of war were publically excecuted in Nasiriya and this information was obtained only from a single source and there was no proof to support it. Furthermore, the US forces had violated the Geneva Convention by attacking Iraq's state television station which was a civilian target, but the incident was denied. All these cases showed the media's attempt to defame Iraq and make it seem everyone was suffering under the tyrannic rule of Saddam while projecting US in positive light as trying to redeem the Iraqis and protect the world from the WMD.
The mass media has a great influence over people, thus they exploit this advantage by mixing fact and fiction, choosing what they want to show us and what they dont. Hence we should not fully believe what the mass media shows us as it is not always right.