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Blog #5: Dissent

 It is common knowledge that popular and mainstream news sources such as ABC, Fox, or CNN produce and publish very biased stories. With that, we typically watch or subscribe to news channels that are putting out  the type of news we know that we want to hear. For example, CNN is known to be a station that has built a reputation of traditional liberal-leaning coverage so it is more likely for someone who classifies as a liberal to watch CNN. News stations have a way of taking one story and publishing it in completely different and biased ways based upon what they know their audience wants to hear. 


Fake News, 1969: My Infamous Role in the Harvard Antiwar Protests | The New Yorker

After browsing and looking at the following antiwar websites, https://www.antiwar.com and https://www.theamericanconservative.com , it is not surprising to me in the slightest that I do not see this kind of information on mainstream news. I say this for a multitude of reasons. One being that the government would not want stories being released by the press that have any negative connotation with war. This has been deemed true even dating all the way back to when the Sedition Act was passed in 1917. This act made it a crime for American citizens to print, utter, or publish any false, scandalous, and malicious writing about the government. 

    So why is it that mainstream media is so adamant on promoting war and military intervention but so quick to silence anti war voices? According to https://truthout.org/articles/why-the-mainstream-media-is-gung-ho-on-war-and-silencing-antiwar-voices/ , "It is because we no longer have news in this country, we have infotainment. "Infotainment lacks patriotism or humanism – it cares neither about the good of our nation or its people. It’s instead exclusively about getting the most eyeballs, and bringing in the most dollars. Wars are really good for both of those things." As unfortunate as that is, it is true.

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