AntiWar

 Antiwar

Antiwar at the time and even now is a big deal but a lot of what people say are almost never heard of by others online. I big reason for this is because of mainstream media being able to tell where biases stand in terms of people giving their own opinion about certain conflicts between nations and during wars. A big example of this would be people that do protests that are easier for the media to handle or just even ignore don't really make it onto the news as much as antiwar protests that grab the media's attention and adds more pressure into decision making in the media.

Media

Media plays a big role when it comes to Anti-war protests in nations all over. There are 4 main reasons why media is able to just ignore most anti war protests that are made from the people. The media considers a lot of anti war protests to be one a smaller scale so it makes it harder for them to ignore tens or hundreds of protestors without revealing what biases they have. Another reason is that many protests for war are very formulaic or predictable, almost as if they were scripted. Because of the face that they seem scripted, its much easier for the media to just ignore these protests. However, protests that are more creative or baffling often gain more attention from people and the media to where they can't ignore it. A third reason is that protests that don't pressure the media are usually just dealt away with really quickly and are taken care of. However, if a protest disrupts business such as traffic flow or strikes becomes a big deal, than media would be heavily involved and pressured into covering these stories. The last thing that media can do to just ignore antiwar is because the media has their own interest when it comes to wanting something positive that would benefit them, if they don't feel like the news coverage about the antiwar protest would benefit the media, than they wouldn't cover it and just simply ignore it.

 War Protests

There are many well-known Antiwar protests that have been marked in history but there are two big ones that I believe have great importance when it comes to sparking antiwar movements. The first one was the war against Vietnam. In this war, the U.S was firing bombs and nukes against Vietnam, killing thousands and thousands of people with no gain from it. At that point, people believed that we weren't fighting for anything at all and just killing people for no reason which is why the anti-war protest became a huge deal. This anti-war movement inspired many anti-war songs such as "Backlash Blues" and "Saigon Pride" which express the importance of protests, and some were even considered protests themselves. 

The second one was anti-war movements on the war against Iraq. This war against Iraq was non beneficial and was just a reaction for what happened during 9/11 and the U.S government basically just wanted revenge for it so they entered war with Iraq. Many people realized that this was not beneficial for the U.S and this was correct. After the war, the government was in debt around 2 trillion dollars and had lost many people during the war. Now the protestors were trying to warn and were against the idea of the invasion of Iraq, they were stating that Colin Powell had falsely claimed that Iraq had weapons of massive destruction. Even after hearing this, the government just chose to ignore it and entered into war with Iraq anyways. This protest is by far the biggest one out there after the Vietnam protest.