Tuesday, June 7, 2011

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??

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