Jessica Lynch
Jessica Lynch: PR Stunt for the PentagonOn Sunday, March 23, 2003, Capt. Troy King, commander of the 507th, led his unit off-course in Iraq at 1:00 am. At 7 am, after realizing his mistake, King attempted to turn around as the convoy was ambushed by enemy fire. During the ambush, some US soldiers escaped, some got rescued, and some get insured, or worse, killed. Of the soldiers who weren't fortunate enough to get away, Jessica Lynch is the most famous. After being injured in the ambush, Jessica was taken to Saddam General Hospital. This is where the story becomes complex. The Pentagon/US Government says that she was riddled with bullet holes and stab wounds and tortured for information, and the Iraqi doctors say that she had some broken bones, but wasn't mistreated. One side says "daring rescue," the other side, "staged assault." After a made-for-TV movie was shown on national TV, Jessica Lynch
People pre-ordered her authorized biography from Amazon. 300 hostages in a Russian theater: who cares? But if 2 Americans are among the hostages, the US papers have it on the front page and people start pressing the government to get those Americans out of there. Even without reading a newspaper or turning on a TV, people knew about Jessica and were talking about her over lunch. The magic of the media is that it effects us all, in one-way or another, on a day-to-day basis. " It seems that both stories seem plausible. The coverage for Jessica's story was large enough to make the entire country know and even love a girl that they had never met, let alone seen before. Both stories end with Jessica being taken from the hospital by US soldiers. spoke out in an interview about the events that had transpired in March, saying that the Pentagon's capitalization on her rescue was "wrong. Patrick Miller, the man who saved his own life, as well as the lives of others, including Jessica Lynch? The explanation is both simple and upsetting: the media wants to sell us certain images, not the truth or the whole story. Because the media has become nothing more than trusted entertainment, a story like Jessica's sells quickly. Had Jessica Lynch been male, the story may not have gotten the same play simply because the image wouldn't have been just right. Since the media is our primary connection with the world outside our lives, most of us believe that what we are told is not only the truth, but also is the most important information. The media feeds the public with information that sells. Jessica Lynch may have been brutally raped and beaten, and maybe she just crashed her Humvee and broke some bones.
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