Shooting War

I have always liked comics but it has been a really long time since I have read one. This has started me back up and reading them just like old times. Shooting War is a Web-comic that mainly focuses on the media. It is about a blogger named Jimmy Burns that becomes a famous journalist and is known worldwide. Burns blew up on the media by capturing a bombing attack that he ran into while video blogging near his apartment. They live streamed Burns on television while he was shooting the destruction that has happened. He then was receiving offers from television networks, but he kept refusing because he knew the news is a bunch of bogus that nobody believes anymore. The news is becoming more of a cartoon it looks like. Sometimes its funny to watch. They try to cover up a ton of the real news that they do not want anybody to listen to. I personally just listen to the news to see what they are trying to hide. You never know when they are telling the truth or telling a lie, but mostly lies. Anthony Lappe clarifies the media and its flaws in picture. This is just as true as reality news media's and with what is happening now in the middle east. One rhetorical strategy this author uses during this comic script is showing us proof. He does that by taking us to Baghdad and giving us a good look of what is happening during the war. In one scene he claims that the soldiers do not have a clue of what they are shooting at. This is absurd. Is this what really goes on??

Week 2

Week two consisted of a couple of readings and a movie which was, Diary of the Dead. One of the readings was a Web-comic called Shooting War. If you have not read this or heard of it, I would recommend looking it up and reading it. It is a fairly good comic. It is very true especially about the news. No one can trust the news these days. Moving on to a speech of Barack Obama speaking about race and becoming a more perfect union. It was an amazing speech to listen to given the fact that Obama is a great speaker. The movie, Diary of the Dead, was a zombie movie. I don't have a problem watching scary movies or any kind of horror film and this was not that scary to me. I like the movies that keep you on your feet. This movie was mostly about how the media was not giving the people the truth and whats really going on. I agree with what these people in the movie were trying to say, not just because I think the media is not giving us the right information but because they try to make people believe whatever they want them to think. They are just feeding us a bunch of nonsense. However, I did enjoy this movie as well other readings that were included this week.