Wednesday, January 17, 2007

"Baghdad Sniper"

In my opinion, I believe that the new visual communication has more of an affect on the people than that facts from an article do. In the article you get a lot of information but it does not show exactly how horrible the attacks really are. People now and days are getting more and more used to the technology and being able to see what it is they really want.

The article gives more information across without the graphic violence that is being seen in the videos. This would attract more of the older people, or people that don't want to see the graphic pictures. The paper does a good job of saying that after an attack, there is already video or pictures online and ready to view. This is true because the world would rather watch the attacks than read about it.

One of the video i watched was not very appealing. The American soldiers were being sniped down without warning. This clip was an awful site to see. In this video they showed an American soldiers dead body rotting in out in the open. They just kept showing the body. This was very disrespectful to me because they were showing off something that should not have happened.

Another clip that I watch there was a group of American soldiers being shot at and they had nowhere to go. This is definitely not fair fighting. Although fighting is not good, it should be done properly and not like this.

Seeing clips like this gives the world a better view at what is really going on. Although they could just read about it, I believe that the world would rather see the horror for themselves so they can see that is it real and true.

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