Blog Post #4 - The Progressive Era

After browsing both Antiwar.com and The American Conservative, I feel incredibly uninformed and uneducated on the sheer amount of foreign entanglements the United States has become involved in. It feels wrong to be misguided on mainstream media in the direction of less controversial subjects. Regardless of whether or not it's going to be profitable for said news networks to discuss the United State’s positive and negative involvements in foreign affairs, I strongly believe that these topics should be released and emphasized more openly/often. 

It could be argued that the U.S. government hasn’t been the most transparent with what specifically is going on in each militarized foreign operation, however it should be the duty of not only the U.S. government, but also American news reporters to actively seek out and release critical information involving the nation’s foreign affairs. It seems that popular mainstream news networks overtime are accustoming their audiences to less and less stories involving around the United State’s involvement in foreign affairs until a “major” story arises like a bombing or gunfight resulting in the loss of American lives. News networks should be confidently posting articles involving the U.S.’ international relations without the fear of being silenced or receiving subsequent punishment. The less these topics are discussed, the higher the odds are of the said information to be misrepresented or misconstrued. Having to go to an obscure news source to find information about anti war material lowers the reliability and educational expectations of mainstream news companies. Hopefully audiences realize that these popular networks are withholding information from them and choose to branch out and research new means of acquiring information.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/web-categories/foreign-affairs/

https://www.antiwar.com/