torsdag den 6. oktober 2011

Saddam Hussein’s toppled statue

In April 2003, the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad was toppled. The reason for this event was to make the point to the rest of the world that the U.S. Army now had conquered the capital of Iraq.

The toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue was a huge media event and was covered by many journalists from all over the world. These journalists told the world about how this was a great day (April 9, 2003), and how the Iraqi people joined in toppling his statue.

These journalists lived at a nearby hotel which had a great view of the statue and the park which surrounded the statue it. A greater place to make a big media event was hard to find in a country like Iraq.

The media covered the toppling of Saddam’s statue to make Bush look good. By making Bush look good, he could continue his campaign through Iraq and finish off the rest of Saddam’s forces. The media happened to help Bush in his campaign through Iraq by making him look good to the rest of the world. The media just wrote about what they saw, and they saw hundreds of happy civilians toppling the statue of Saddam Hussein with the help from U.S. soldiers. This has happened to give a positive effect for further missions in Iraq, as long as the media doesn’t tell the world about the killing of innocents.

Some years later the truth behind this mass media coverage was told to the world through blogs and reader’s letters in various news media. It was all a media-stunt. What really happened was that there wasn’t nearly any people at the plaza, which indicate that some of the information from the media hasn’t been quite true. Most of the people at the plaza were journalists, American soldiers and anti-Saddam-people (people who are against Saddam Hussein -Iraqi people from outside Iraq).








By Jonas and Dianna

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