How the Media's Weapons Fetish Primes Us for War

Name: How the Media's Weapons Fetish Primes Us for War
Uploaded: 2017-05-29T12:33:42
Duration: 6 min
Description: Between the Tomahawk strike on Syria and the MOAB in Afghanistan, cable news under Trump has been saturated by images of American firepower. But the media's obsession with American weapons sanitizes violence and makes it harder to think critically about why we use deadly force.

Between the Tomahawk strike on Syria and the MOAB in Afghanistan, cable news under Trump has been saturated by images of American firepower. But the media's obsession with American weapons sanitizes violence and makes it harder to think critically about why we use deadly force.

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