Monday, April 26, 2010

This Is War - Psychology of Communication and Photojournalism class

This video starts from American soldiers' voice. In Bagdad, Iraq, people were walking to the street ordinarily. Suddenly, American soldiers began to shoot people at random. It was an unexpected event, so people couldn't escape from the attack and they died at the street. Soldiers sent signals when they focused on and shot people. They shot people continuously, moving with car and laughing. In these victims, there were two Reuters employees. Soldiers didn't kill only a child for an excuse of what they did. After seeing many people lay on the street deadly, they crossed the street with their car, even though they knew that there were many dead people under their car.

When I saw this video, I got really surprised. I thought how these soldiers can continue to laugh when they kill people, even cross the street that dead people lie on. As the article "This Is War" says, I agree that American army and the media try to hide the bad things like this cruel event. I think that the media should also have the equal coverage of each events. There are many violent events, most of them might not be known. I hope these victims to be reduced.

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