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The U.S. empire has worked carefully to use various media forms to create an ideological climate both domestically and abroad that supports the efforts of a ‘’ benevolent’’ America to establish new forms of military, political, and economic dominance. Such power has worked to transfer billions of dollars from the poorest countries in the world to the wealthiest corporate tycoons of the richest countries on the planet. Such actions have improvised hundreds of millions of people. (p. 80 3rd paragraph)
I would like to comment on this quote. I think that this quote is more important than any concept in chapter 6 or 7. This quote shows how America looks like, and what they do. Throughout those 2 chapters, we realize that media show America as either a Patriotic country, and as the worse country on earth. It shows that because they have power they think they can do everything they want, conquered any weaker country as long as they have interest in it. They could have stopped many conflict… like in Africa… which million and millions of people died, but they only thing we remember is the Gulf War, The Vietnam etc… Media shows the atrocities across the world, but it is different in America, the ‘’land of the free’’. They are making allies with richest countries to actually taken every single piece of wealth in poor countries. In the text, there is a quote that says: “ aggressors cannot be rewarded’’ … but what about U.S. and message sent in Media? It basically tells that it is nonsense, that they have the ultimate power and so on. I think the authors are trying to point out that even though millions of people across the world were against war in Iraq, in Afghanistan etc…
The use of fear in Media as motive to American’s leader to get what they want is unacceptable. Media in this sense provide emotion where they force people to agree with their point of views. They selected the important part only, instead of transmitting the full information. This use of fear and Media is the perfect combination to achieve their goals. Once everybody is brainwashed, the can talk about ‘’ benevolent’’ America to establish new forms of military, political, and economic dominance. There is nothing benevolent in this, simply greed and power. Like stipulate in chapter 7 in the New York Times, they say that winning over a weaker country is easy, and that they don’t simply have to defeat them, but actually beat them entirely and rapidly. They simply seek power. They allied with WTO, and many other big world institutions, to prove themselves as serious, and as acting in the best interest of the world, but mostly for themselves. U.S. are actually fighting against ghost. They wanted to fight against nuclear missiles in Iraq… which they did not found any. They could have stop African conflict, but because they had no interest in there… they decided to go where they would take some benefits… Media shows U.S. as patriots because they fought the terrorists. IN fact… they weren’t at all. If a girl find out that her boyfriend cheated on her, she’ll find that girls within 24 hrs… and if U.S. had billion of dollars, an army… and still, cannot find Ben Laden?… there’s something wrong? What about Media? LOL! Nonsense!
