Being in danger of having another bad grade on another one of the blogging grades, here I go. Last night I went and saw the film Green Zone, featuring Matt Damon. This movie was an excellent example of how the media completely influences peoples views on specific things that are going on. In the example of the movie, the media is being "paid off" (in a way) about the weapons of mass destruction projects in the middle east. People were believing things that had been posted in newspapers as well as things that were being said on television. People wanted to believe these things because their own media was telling them about it. It led to the big twist of the story, which I don't want to completely give away, but in real life we never found any, and in the movie it is the same. However people assumed that they were just being hidden much better.

However, the main part of the movie that relates to this class and to this blog is the effect the media had on what the people of the U.S. were feeling about the war. People thought what was going on was justified due to how the media portrayed what was happening, however in the reality it was all part of spin.