Sunday, December 6, 2009

They drew first blood...



Disclaimer: If you don't like blood and gore and your basic ass kicking than don't watch this video. This is my boy, John Rambo, and his kill count in the first three Rambo movies. The clip is a little long but after 5 minutes of complete Rambo domination, his grand total is 157 kills.

Perfect example of marginalization in the media. Whoever Rambo is killing at the time is rendered completely inhuman and disposable. We root for Rambo because he is the star of the movie and we're following the plot from his point of view. Most viewers probably don't even realize the amount of foreign soldiers or police officers he actually kills. Similarly, one of the criticisms of global news agencies is marginalization and unfair access. Sixty to seventy percent of the time government information is formulated and distributed to news agencies by the government, relegating other countries with less access to news agencies powerless and unimportant. Embedded reporters tend to write stories that sympathize or side with the troops rather than the native people, but even if they write an unfavorable story they gave up their rights to free press as part of the terms of being embedded.

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