Antiwar News, or Lack Thereof
The idea of antiwar ideas and theories being widely spread throughout our country is not something us Americans are custom too. To have antiwar thoughts is seen to be unamerican and will typically be rejected by the vas majority of the country. The government will make the decision of war or staying out of war and will want to silence opposing thoughts as much as possible to decrease rebel from the American people.
After exploring the first antiwar website https://www.antiwar.com/ I noticed a few differences between this site and the more public news websites like ABC or Fox. The first major thing I noticed on this antiwar website is that they cover news throughout 15 different countries and regions. Typically news sources just highlight trending and current news on the most controversial or talked about areas at the time. I also noticed many strongly opinionated headlines for example " The Adults in the Room are always the most colossal screwups". Headlines are typically found to be factual and un-opinionated in mainstream news sources.
I believe this website is not commonly found by many because of the controversy that surrounds the idea of being antiwar. As of today there are around 19 million military veterans and those individuals and those close to them would be very opposed to the idea of antiwar being widespread because in my opinion it is insensitive and offensive to those who served our country in any manner.
The media is very highly controlled and manipulated to appear a certain way to viewers and it surprises me that websites like these are not facing censorship issues or getting blocked by those in the government with higher power of control. Although everyone has a right to speak and publicize how they feel about a certain topic it does not mean that everyone will agree with those ideas. This should emphasize the importance of having a marketplace of ideas to gather a variety of sources and opinions in order to form your personal opinion on the topic at hand.
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