Violent Conflicts Through Media and Politics

 After the development of the atomic bomb in the mid 1940s the way the world viewed war would change forever. Shortly after the usage of the bombs there was a race of other countries trying to develop this kind of technology. During the Cold War th e US and Russia entered an arms race of mutually assured destruction and there was an estimated 70,300 active bombs in 1986. There has been a series of treaties between the two countries which brings the global total today down to just under 4000, but there are new players on the map. There are currently nine countries who have nuclear capability's; USA, Russia, China, UK, France, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea. The biggest question on the worlds mind is if any country is actually crazy enough to start a nuclear war? Depending on what news source you read, you will get mixed answers. The Washington post in a recent article ( Article 1 ) would tell you that the current threat of a nuclear war is unlikely in the case of Russia a...

 Tensions between Israel and Lebanon based terrorist organization Hezbollah are rapidly growing days after the Pager and Walkie talkie explosions that took the lives of at least 40 people have been killed with thousands more being injured. In response to these attacks Hezbollah launched their own rocket barrage and vowed to start an "open-ended battle of reckoning". As of now Israels government has stated that they are ready to take new steps against Hezbollah, as the rest of the world watches anxiously.  President Biden released an official statement saying “We’re going to do everything we can to keep a wider war from breaking out.”. This comes on top of the US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin making his formal statement that diplomatic solutions are being negotiated between the two parties. As this conflict is evolving everyday there is no real telling what direction it is headed in, but one thing is for sure this will be a burning question for the presidential ca...

 Neither war no media is a new concept to humanity. War has always been followed and recorded by people all throughout history, however as technology advanced and the reasons for war became more gray than black and white the attitude towards it has drastically changed. In WWII there was a very close following of the war on the home front in the United States with a very positive support from the citizens. News articles from that time period often featured artistic propaganda that painted the picture of "Good vs Evil" to help encourage the American home front to keep doing everything in their power to help aid the fight in during the war.    As technology advanced the next big war on Americans mind was Vietnam, however this time there was a much different feeling towards the war. This disregard manly stems from the idea of fighting in Vietnam with many not understanding the reasoning for the US being there, however media had vastly changed between WWII and Vietnam and it w...

 In 2024 most people you ask really only know that there is a war going on between Ukraine and Russia and Israel and Palestine. This is due to the dominance of media coverage going towards these two conflicts. According to the Geneva academy there are over 110 armed conflicts taking place in the world right now, so why is it that there is essentially no national/global media coverage of most these conflicts? The first reason why there is not much media coverage with these conflicts is that a majority of them are non international. Local armed conflicts between non-state actors do not really come up on the medias radar especially in the United States, unless something absolutely appalling is taking place like the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. An initial thought when examining this is that if the United States and other global powers are not involved in these conflicts then it would make sense that there is no media coverage of the wars. This is not true however because Western powers ar...

Introduction While the full history and story between the conflict extremely lengthy and can be made into many case studies on its own, this blog will focus on how the media has approached the coverage over the year . This conflict goes back over 100 years after WWII when the State of Palestine was declared to be a Jewish national home. Immediately following this Palestine would began an uprising that would divide the state into the two parts we know today, Israel and Palestine. On October 7th 2023 the Islamist militant organization Hamas launched a series of coordinated attacks on Israel which resulted in Israel taking action by counterattacking the State of Palestine which is still taking place today. (A video that provides a much more thorough summery can be found at the bottom of this post). https://www.sazf.org/current-issues/israel-palestine-land-map Taking Sides? As soon as this conflict broke out the was a massive divide in the media on support for either side and exactly...