BLOG 5:#Steven Said:

Within a month the invasion into Iraq had supposedly been ‘accomplished’. President Bush shortly said afterwards that the coalition’s “mission” had been “successful”. By successful was this inferring to 1, 700 American soldiers and tens and thousands of Iraqi soldiers and civilians been killed (The Monthly 2005). Due to the mess they caused within Iraq, it is now one of the most violent countries in the world and has been invaded several times due to the fear and danger of arsenal and the supposed links with Islamic terrorists. Three months after the invasion no mass destruction weapons were found. Therefore the comments made by The Australian rather a hoax than a reality. The Australians argument about the justice they got out of the war was they had…’disarmed Iraq’ (The Monthly 2005). The Australian further backing up this comments by stating that it was “an incontrovertible fact” that in the past Saddam had possessed and used WMD, it was “no crime” to have “erred on the side of caution” by attacking him (The Monthly 2005). It’s clear to see from these statements that The Australian newspaper is backing up the faults of Bush. In any persons right mind print media wouldn’t support such false accusations from the government if the organization themselves weren’t tied to the political scene. Therefore it is a deal for a deal. In summary it is vital for consumers to acknowledge that the media is controlled by groups within society that make sense of society on behalf of others, thus having a controlling influence.Therefore till this day big media cooperation’s have had ties with the political scene. Much of what is reported in newspapers “consists of media releases or statements made by public relations (PR) firms, politicians, union leaders and government officials’’(The Australian Law Postgraduate Network 2007).