Scott Wilson 08/08/2015 MGT 605 Professor Carrie Noah HW 1A
Going Public with Your Reasoning
It is thought that a lot of topics these days are very upsetting or just down right frustrating. But, one still sticks in my mind, and that is “Why is the media allowed to be on the front lines in combat?” From personal experience of being in combat, it was very upsetting to see the media, and them already knowing what our missions are going to be, and where we are going. They were able to even know before us soldiers even knew because for some God awful reason, they were allowed to be in on the briefing given by our top leaders. What the media personnel would do with that information would go onto frustrate us military personnel even more; they’d air it on our tactics or locations on the news for the whole world to hear; even our enemies. The reason I take this personally is because one day that we were on a mission, and we were under attack, there was the media recording the whole thing, even when my team was hit by an IED; there they were recording our every move. This would even go back to the Vietnam War, when our troops were getting ready to clear out the field, and go back to the green zone, there were the media coming off of choppers, asking stupid questions like, “How many people did you kill”, or “How can you be killing these innocent children?” Not even asking if these soldiers were even alright or did they need anything. But, thanks to the media, when those soldiers were coming home, they had to hear things like, “Baby Killers” because that’s what the media had told the world about them, not on what the soldiers went through, or sacrificed because their country had called upon them to do this mission. An argument that I’d try to make public is, “Why does the media even need to know what going on