Why We Fight vs How We Report

I think one of the most important points that was brought up in the documentary "Why We Fight" was about the relationship between the Pentagon and the media. The line, "we need to prevent another American body from getting on the air again" comes to mind. After Vietnam, the Pentagon realized the drastic negative affect of certain images appearing on television. Namely the dead bodies of U.S. soldiers. I feel like our journalists have failed us in maintaining a critical and unbiased view of the military and our government. An interviewee in the documentary said that the U.S. has been in a state of diminished vigilance since the time of Dwight Eisenhower. I feel like the media has made the same mistake. They succumbed to the same blind rage and vengeance that the rest of America felt after 9/11 and the failure in capturing Osama Bin Laden. The next President and group of leadership in the U.S. must take new insight and skepticism in examining our current strategy in foreign policy and the War on Terror so that we may reinstate not only the reputation of American throughout the world, but first, to its own citizens.