The main focus of my blog is to look into the sheer speed at which news, poll results, and rumors are spread on social media has altered politics. Unlike in the days before the internet, when people had to wait for the next newspaper or TV news broadcast to acquire the latest news, Internet news is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This has been taken a step further by social media. While news is available at any time on numerous websites, most individuals spend more time on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter than on serious news or political websites. This means that anytime you log in, you'll see all of the most recent hot news items and comments posted by your friends.
One interesting side effect of Russia's unjustified invasion of Ukraine is that it has become the "first social media war," with people on the ground in the beleaguered country able to publish real-time news from the frontlines. That capacity to publish updates and share footage might help guarantee that the truth is not the first victim of this fight. Media Coverage Of The War Because its military action was triggered by media engagement, the Spanish-American War has long been referred to as the first "media war." Many publications even printed sensationalist pieces, and journalists were dispatched to Cuba to observe the fighting firsthand. Because a significant number of US combat soldiers were committed to the war in the spring of 1965, the conflict in Vietnam received the moniker "first television war" after it became the focus of large-scale news coverage. By 1968, during the height of the war, there were as many as 600 credentialed journalist...
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