here is my 11th grade english essay that i\'m working on,
its about war...like all of my writting now a days but thats beside the point. Please read and tell me what you think



Media and war

Ever since the Vietnam War media has played a bigger and gradually increasing role in the U.S military in times of war. The reporting started mostly to give citizens on the homeland news on soldiers abroad and the followings of the controversial war like a weekly updater. Reporters followed soldiers into combat with mic and camera in hand. What these mics and cameras caught was like a grim dose of deadly reality TV. People had always reported on wars Proof being in old World War II footage. It was common place for trained members of the military press to report on the war but in Vietnam we see a surge of commercial reporters such as: 28 year old Saigon correspondent David Halberstam who in conjunction with lieutenant colonel John Paul Van, helped get the truth out on the censored war and turn David into a famous journalist in the process.
This shift is what makes many believe that the Vietnam war?s outcome was not determined on the battle field with force and elite military tactics but by public opinion through reporters who reported what they saw and refused to let the government or persons employed by the government manipulate there findings.

There was many a battle on the subject of what the American public should hear on the war. The majority of military officials opted to have the press report only things that boosted the morale of soldiers on the field and swayed the public opinion to the pro-war side at home. Though news uninflected by pro war propaganda quickly morphed patriotic students and young people across the nation into roaring pro-peace activists and turned righteous soldiers into uncertain men-at-arms.
The truth was, sadly that many people had no idea why they were at war. Most, when asked why they were at war responded with random rhetoric that the acquired from evening debates, news and other media outlets. This due mostly on the fact that although media is a good source of information. Often during times of war it is clutter with misinformation, censorship and or a sworm of irrelevant information that only helps to confuse the viewer.
With all the opinions, interviews and personal sentiment that the media is capable of shedding light on it becomes apparent that the purpose or reason for a war may take on a richer, more complex meaning. A war to free a suppressed nation may seem pretty straight forward, self explanatory?righteous even; But its only when you scan further that you might realize a wealth of citizens from that same nation in witch some say the grave injustice is being done that you find the mistreatment argument untrue. Other questions  also arise. Do the majority of these people desire to be ?freed? ? or the conflict witch could rise from the process?
Everything is situational and hardly ever good or bad, black or white. Mass media, and the rapid spread of information made possible through the internet is allowing persons everywhere to glimpse proof that war, especially a war a unilaterally mindset based war with possible mischievious underlying  purposes should not only be rethought but rigously questioned based on a wide set of morales, a full spectrum of various view points, ideologies and anything else the human spirit can conjure up. Thankfully television and the internet are the perfect tools to accomplish this.

Vietnam was the starting point for all of what we know as modern war time reporting. Without the uncovering of such scandals as the pentagon papers in witch proof of blatant propaganda and lies from government officials was brought to light. Without stories to be passed down to new generations from family that deal with the themes of the Vietnam war. Peace protesters might not gather with as much ferocity; The mass?s might not be as inquisitive.  No longer could American government so easily hide under such a thick vail of nationalism, using its citizens own love of there country to silence them

The hitman clan has been lying in calm sleep... patiently

waiting for all the fledgling bands of Yliakum inhabitants

to evolve from the small...weak nothing bands of

useless

field hands they are into mighty guilds to be owned by H.T.M....

that day is drawing nearer

all those who oppose us are doomed...


enlist now to reserve your spot in the supreme council of hitmanclan.


H.t.M., controllers of the planeshift realm


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Clan revival... 09/24/03

hurry now...time is fleeting

I think its funny that developers havent realized the effect a good arena could have in a game. I mean an arena would legalize pking (in a sense). promote user interaction and healthy competition. You solve all the problems other games have had with pking and do it in a way that still keeps the pking part fun.

I just wanted to say that  

Is it just me or has anyone else realized that the ps boards are like an enthrolling drama, a soap opera even. I Love it, these boards are amlost as fun as Tv.  

Its like I get bored...go away for a few days an bam! a billion new drama filled posts pop up. We\'ve got everything here.

Brush\'s with death: links run in with breast cancer.
Sex appeal :kada el   .
violence: all the people who get msg board rage.

Its amazing how people on these boards have unknowingly combined all the ingredients to make a perfect day time drama, and I thank you all

I it says that the mailing list I was trying to subscribe to doesn\'t exist, I know i put the info in correctly

Hey, I was trying to run a cs cel tutorial, (planeshift.sourceforge.net/celtut/cel.html) and I ran into some probs, I am using Bloodshed dev c++ 4.01 and these are the errors I got when I copied the source. Could anyone tell me where to find the needed directories and install them on my comp?


2 c:\\docume~1\\136742\\locals~1\\temp\\celtut.cpp
 css.h: No such file or directory

4 c:\\docume~1\\136742\\locals~1\\temp\\celtut.cpp
 pl\\pl.h: No such file or directory

5 c:\\docume~1\\136742\\locals~1\\temp\\celtut.cpp
 bl\\bl.h: No such file or directory

6 c:\\docume~1\\136742\\locals~1\\temp\\celtut.cpp
 pl\\entity.h: No such file or directory

7 c:\\docume~1\\136742\\locals~1\\temp\\celtut.cpp
 pl\\propclas.h: No such file or directory

8 c:\\docume~1\\136742\\locals~1\\temp\\celtut.cpp
 pf\\region.h: No such file or directory

9 c:\\docume~1\\136742\\locals~1\\temp\\celtut.cpp
 pf\\camera.h: No such file or directory

Hi and hello all potential newbie clan joiners and whom ever is considering a clan for the ps game.

My name is Cedric and I used to run a clan call the hitman clan. We where extremely active over the summer of last but encountered problems with leadership when my pc was stolen. The clan now a days only exists in 3 barely accessed web pages that even i almost never look at. I am currently learning C++ and have access to a pc about an hour a day so I have begun posting on the forums again (boredom). Anyways I am sending out a call to those who have mistakenly joined a clan and want to join a clan that may not be as active as others but have more drive and potential than any other gaming clans out. I am still saving for that new pc (..lol) so i will only be here to aid in the reconstruction and continued diredtion of the clan, I can\'t communicate by e-mail so don\'t send \'em (unless you know a good proxy ur sum good way to get around a high school firewall that i don\'t know of) . I will be using these forums to communicate with members.  :]
so
If any of this attracts you please post and tell me about yourself, what you like, what your skills are (html, photoshop..anything) and why you think you\'ll be a good choice for the hitman clan.

note: All inactive members feel free to say sum\'n, let me know that ur alive

.:This has been a public service announcement brought to you by the X Leader of Plane shifts most successful clan: Hitmanclan:P :.