9/11 Journalism: Towards To The New Normals

In this text, it is mentioned that strating from the preparation phase to the end American media had left it's essential function in Iraq War and take on to market the war. The extraordinary times is the examination times for media. In extraordinary times the biggest success for media is to pass the 'could i catch the truth?' examination. Unfortunately American journalism could not pass that exam. Especially during the preparation phase of the Iraq War, 9/11' s special conditions put in the shade the principles of journalism. In other words, in 9/11 American media presented extraordinary times journalism. However, according to outstanding journalists and media administrators these reactions were the decleration of the new journalism norms. It is possible to accept these norms as refusing the history, writing the history according to the new conditions, exploition of the feelings. Iraq War was built up on lies and fears. To target the public with to distort the news, keep in secret the reality, confuse with playing with words, bombard with messages... These are the common tactics that were presented in every era of the history. However it is not possible to say a news which is missing the targets.