war coverage in the media

ANALYSIS

‘Death missing in G-rated war’ is an opinion piece written by Neil Mitchell in the Herald Sun. The title of this article automatically refers to the coverage of the war in Iraq as entertainment by using the term ‘G-rated’. This is the term recognised in the classification of television and movies nation-wide. G-rated or general is the lowest rating suitable for the whole family regardless of age. The reason that Mitchell believes war coverage can be classified as ‘G’ is because of the ‘Death missing’. By saying that death is missing, he is referring to the lack of images and footage of the dead in the broadcasts to the public.

In the first paragraph the issue of whether or not scenes from the battle field should be broadcast to the entire world is made of obvious. He then goes on to describe the coverage on war as entertainment positively, stating that it’s “a sort of Big Brother series with blood”. In using such a well known international rea...