Dissent in media and Antiwar policies

    In today's media dissent is super important because right now the popular idea is going to war and people who have the other opinion continue to push for it even though it's not the majority because they want to help others better understand and better present their knowledge to those who are in the majority opinion and they push for their voice to be heard and it gets shut down a lot from the media.

When you look at today's media, at least the more popular media sources such as CNN, Fox News, USA TODAY, and the New York Times, you never hear anything about anti-war opinions and what the people are against all war say in media. We have been introduced to two sites through media law literacy: American Conservative and Antiwar.com.

The website Antiwar.com talks a lot about how they are a collaboration of many different political parties against war and how they can come together in unison despite their other disagreements to fight against War in the world, especially the United States' involvement in the war. These people have been writing about and showing their passion for anti-war propaganda ever since Clinton was President back in 1993 and it started with the opposing idea of Clinton's sending in troops when they were fighting the Balkans. "Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire, on the other hand, there is mortal enmity. Either one must forbid the other or one will destroy the other”.  This is something that the antiwar.com website claims to believe in and I believe that this is a great quote to think about when it comes to politics I feel like there are a lot of people who feel constantly harassed and like they have to continue to go against one another and I think that grows and helps people form political opinions and form better opinions on certain policies. And some political news sources do not like to go against anyone so they just talk amongst themselves and don't challenge one another with different ideas which are not how politics should be done. 

Reading about the American conservative is quite interesting because when you look at a website that is a conservative website that claims “to reignite the conversation that conservatives ought to have engaged in since the end of the Cold War, but didn’t” It's interesting to see why they would not be talked about in the mainstream conservative news sources such as Fox News. Because they talk about things that agree with their political party and are on the side of the Republicans but they still get blocked from popular media because of their opinions of anti-war and having super tough conversations about their policies.

One thing I think is interesting is that Fox News will sometimes not talk about things that would challenge the people who are on the show they kind of just go along with what they say and don't talk about the really important things so I feel like by adding some information by a website such as the American conservative might help them challenge their ideas and gain more popularity with their ideas.