POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kuselan, Jessica Lynch, Mathew Brady
15 Aug 2016
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Pol128 - october 8th 2015 week 5. Portrait of how the media was duped by the government. None of the media outlets apologized for the misinformation. Media was manipulated by the gov"t to support the war. Nfl star gave everything up to join the marines. In a truck which got into an accident. Prisoner of war, who knows what the iraqis are going to do to her. Suddenly a story comes out that lynch was being rescued, caught on film. She was not captured and never in danger. She was in iraqi hospital, taken better care of than other patients. When american"s invaded baghdad there was lots of destruction and offered no protection for the artifacts in museums, only for the oil companies there. On the news, a bunch of iraqi men pull down the statue, wave american flags. Reality was that iraqis were given money and rope to take down the statue.
