MEDIA WAR COVERAGE

The Media Coverage of the Gulf Wars of 1991 and 2003



The Media Coverage of the Gulf Wars of 1991 and 2003

Introduction

Media plays a vital role in covering the significant events and broadcasting it so that the whole world is aware of actual position. Therefore, there is a great duty imposed on the shoulders of media and it must tackle it in an unbiased way. The media coverage's reliability and validity was first questioned in the first Persian war against USA since the matter pertaining to Vietnam. The result of media coverage from that era has been affecting the media reporting system of war in USA. The main issue of criticism on media coverage of Gulf war believed as deliberate interference of Bush Administration and Ruling Authority and acts of censoring the real piece of news and unnecessary nationalism. Numerous study and historical analysts consider the Gulf war as an easy gig for USA to conquer the discomfort associated with post Vietnam condition. It was considered as a corrupted and manipulated act of media and government mutual campaign that supported the war and ignorance of harm and cost associated to human life (Coyne, S. M., 2006, n.d.).

The First Persian Gulf War

The first Gulf war began from 1990 and ended in 1991 between United States and Iraq in a answer to Iraq's war against Kuwait in 1990. The president of Iraq, Saddam Husain attacked Kuwait and conquered it easily as it was a small nation. Later, Bush government obtained support from thirty four nations under UN and initiated a campaign against Iraq for one hundred and sixty six days and formulated a troop with full alliance of five hundred thousand people in Saudi Arabia against Saddam on the withdrawal of war against Kuwait in 1991. On disapproval of obeying USA, US initiated an air attack campaign against Iraq and almost conquered them officially in March 1991 (Santella, A., 2004, pp. 4-35).

The Second Persian Gulf War

The second Persian Gulf War incurred between USA and Iraq and began in 2003 and ended in 2011 and UK also supported USA in this war. The main purpose of its occurrence was failure of Iraqi government to comply with UN rules and instructions pertaining to weapon checkups and use. The USA also claimed Iraq for attacking and posing risk of security of USA after the events of attack like that of World Trade Centre in 2001. The continuous denial of Iraq on weapons inspections and assessments done by UN led to air attacks on Iraq. US gained control of Iraq on April 9 at its capital named as Baghdad. Furthermore, after declaration of USA victory, it was discovered that there were no mass destructive weapons found in Iraq, therefore, US and UK were got charged for overstressing the threat of chemical and biological weapons under possession of Iraq to these countries. This was very much criticized by analysts and politicians as a fake and faulty act of UK and US and it was condemned worldwide ...