How Media Manipulates Public Opinion in Case of Wars

Udhava Gupta

This study aimed to explore the involvement of media in shaping the opinion of the public during various wars. The research analysed three wars namely the Iraq war of 1991, the Iraq war of 2003 and the Vietnam War using secondary data from various research articles, videos and history based blogs. It was found that media played a pertinent role in not only forming the public’s opinions but also in orchestrating the war itself with the help of several tactics such as either representing only half of the story based on unreliable sources or propagating “Breaking News” by using false claims and headlines. The current research also found that media indulged in selectivity of history where they chose to present only positive aspects of one side and negative things of the other whichfacilitatedthe achievement of their aim of framing the public opinion.

https://doi.org/10.31871/WJRR.7.4.16