The way the media approaches Benghazi scandal brought a lot of controversy where different media stations offered different versions of the incident causing conflicts and a clash of information. The different media stations offered different reasons for the attack leading to the failure and lose of track by the news media as a channel of communication. The media there focused more on partisan issues and concerns as well as aspects of entertaining the public forgetting their main role of being a gatekeeper of information. This therefore turned the scandal a political issue of the America leadership by presenting and criticizing the statements of various top leaders in America concerning the same issue. The news from media stations like CNN, CBS and FOX were different about Benghazi scandal because each of them aimed at focusing certain partisan and entertaining their customers rather than being a gatekeeper of information. This therefore led to distortion of the public discussions depending on the manipulation of information by each station.
The media stations spend of their time in the news to argue about the Benghazi scandal based on the reactions from the leadership of America. The media stations therefore tend to concentrate on issues that may lead to conflicts by incorporating falsehood in the story leading to improper transfer of information to the public(Zhu, 2012). The coverage and important issues s not given much emphasis while, those events and scandals involving tragedies are given a lot of focus by the media stations and news.
In relation to Fox News, the Benghazi scandal raised a lot of issues which made the story sour and controversial especially depending on the reaction of the American leadership to this situation. Fox news used their 47 minutes of news time to critically talk about the stale Benghazi report which was prepared by CBS. This therefore a lot of attention to this issue due to the enormous attention of the media stations in relation to this scandal which took place in Benghazi leading to the death of the four Americans. On the28th of October 2012 spend about one hour in reviving the Benghazi scandal turning it into a political issue of the America top leadership including the Obama administration. The Fox News used thirteen segments of their news and programs to air the Benghazi sandal portraying it as being politically influenced by the Obama administration in order to entertain and attract large crowds to follow on their news making the public discussions controversial than they should be.
Fox news also attacked the suggestion and reaction of President Obama of terming the death of four Americans in Benghazi to be a ‘phony scandal’. He referred the attack of the diplomatic facilities in the U.S to be phony due to the dangers and distractions it caused in Washington. Fox news therefore attacked Obama for terming the death of the four Americans ‘phony’ yet he never gave attention to the many conspiracy theories of Benghazi scandal since it happened in September 2012.Obama therefore argues that the News on Benghazi scandal therefore had a huge impact in distracting the attention of Washington making them less concerned on matters relating to economic growth and development. He greatly attributes the news on Benghazi scandal to be the main reason why the folks are losing rack in relation to matters concerning the growth of the economy.
The Fox news therefore termed the statements in Obama’s speech to be incredible for terming the death of the four Americans to be phony. The Fox news interviewed several people like Johnston and Camerota where they claimed that the mere death of the four American can be termed as ‘Phony scandal ’.The use of Fox graphics used a lot of rhetorical questions where they criticized and argued that the issue statements f president Obama were termed to be political in nature. Obama condemned the death of the Americans in the Benghazi scandal. These news therefore targeted the partisan issues forgetting the relevant role of being a custodian of valid and reliable information.
Fox news states that the troops in Tripoli Libya were ordered not to assist or help during the Benghazi attacks about 85 times. The testimony from the commander however shows that there was no order that was ever given to the troops. The Fox news shows a lot of blame on Obama for failing to protect the Americans from the Benghazi scandal on allegations that the American forces could not act without enough information of what was on the ground at that time. Fox also put claims on board that Obama never gave any orders to help the Americans during the attack. The Fox news therefore argues that the claim of Obama calling the death of the four American in Benghazi scandal to be phony were baseless and in genuine since his administration is responsible for such an incident. The Fox therefore failed in its role of passing the right and sensitive information to the public leading to a lot of contradictions as well as wrongly criticizing the leadership leading. This therefore diverts attention of the public and further leading to a decline in the growth of the economy.
The fact that Fox put more emphasis on matters of terror shows how it lost track in playing its role of passing the right and positive information to the public as well as avoiding the chances of creating animosity and mistrust on the leadership and administration organs (Fox News, 2013). The manner in which Fox concentrated on the Benghazi scandal with criticism of Obama leadership in protecting the Americans in Libya was dangerous in that it could lead to loss of patriotism where the Americans will lose interest in protecting the interest of the people in the foreign countries. The role of the media is to present the sensitive information in a manner that can provide solution to such problems rather than creating more tragedies like the way Fox presented the news making the issue of Benghazi more severe and fatal than it actually was.
Fox also brought on board allegations that the talking points on the Benghazi attack were edited and removed with the influence of White House in order to facilitate political issues. The news showed that the talking points were eliminated in order to avoid preventing the ongoing investigations in Libya pertaining to such scandal of Benghazi. Fox has also failed in facilitation of its role of informing the partisans and entertainment in that it gave more emphasis on the political aspects of minor and sensitive information which may affect the society in a negative manner. The news of Fox also actively attacked the admiration of Obama in that they blamed the anti-Muslim video dishonestly and this led to the attack and the death of the four Americans on the Benghazi scandal. This is also another failure part of the media because this could lead to the rise of religious conflicts and diversion of the public attention.
It was also noted that Hillary Clinton was accused on baseless grounds that she faked illness in order to avoid making reports about the Benghazi scandal. ABC news on the other hand reports that Clinton was hospitalized due to problems relating to clotting of blood. This therefore shows the failure of most media stations in provision of reliable and valid information to the public. This failure on part of the media is very dangerous because it leads to conflicts and loss of confidence in the leadership of a country. Fox news also claimed that Clinton was responsible for signing the cable through push Republican reducing the security of diplomats in Libya.
The United States secretary of state Hillary Clinton explanation of the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2002 was unsatisfactory. Her image is suffering. The US diplomatic mission has been on attack. Her rate have been dropping according to one of the universities rating, Quinnipiac university poll have indicated her performance has dropped in regard to the survey conducted 52 %favor her which is a drop from 61 %. The result comes from either the independent candidates or the republicans and he democrat. According to the poll her famousness dropped because some blame her for the death of an American ambassador in Libya who was killed.
The media poured various questions and the US officials failed to answer the question satisfactorily, that secretary to state by them according to the CNN poll indicates that about 59% believed that the government would have chipped in land prevented the attack from, occurring. For instance the state would have deployed their citizens from the risk prone areas as Libya had faced threats. According to different paper wapo/ABC news has depicted the steal as being in the act of performing coverage. The poll indicates that the government is running away from its performance and responsibilities. On the other hand the fox news surveys have constantly contemned the way the administration held the issue as a way of a cover up. Their state decided top crap off the elements that would have rather pointed them as poorly equipped.
The tale behind Benghazi tells of the Americans CIA individuals who were killed in a foreign land. It has been argued on the basis of the security failure and on the part of political intrigue. It has not been known whether the incidence id a scam or a scandal. The American citizens were angered by the release of a YouTube video depicting an incidence in Libya on the issue of religion about prophet Muhammad it was exposed by an exiled Egyptian Christian this when something sinister unfolded in Libya. Some individuals in GOP have been talking and put impeachment. People associate to the attack have been tweeting on the issue of Obama that ‘his undoing is a done deal’ CIA have been wandering at the Tripoli airport as they tried to help. They believe that Obama has Benghazi has his own Watergate; this is a claim form a senior republican.
They have the essence of Clinton impeachment in one scenario Clinton have depicted the act of misdeeds. According to CNN the Obama administration has been accused of being reluctant in providing security and this led to the individuals being killed. The issue of Benghazi has been observed to depict the risky the countries have been facing. The scandal accordion to the various media houses in which Fox news claim that the CIA got in the attack had called for backup earlier following the attack but the response was slow and poor hence the death of the individuals. Therefore, if this was anything to go by the kit shows the essence of negligence on the part of the military and the essence of cover up by the administration in holding back the responsibilities that they would have done before the incident occurred.
On Friday the president, barrack Obama was asked questions by the Denver’s KUSA- TV’S Clarke on whether the forces that were summoned had declined to offer back up the president on his response evaded the question and said that they were, making sure that the citizens are safe and the they are trying to find out the truth if the matter. He stated particularly that they are securing the personnel. The issues presented by the president are actually different from what it was he told rose garden since he had not said this that he would protect the citizens and the personnel. Ambassador Stephen died in the battle after hours of struggle from the attack, four other Americans died. Shortly after the incident the Tripoli personnel reported to give back up (Fueller, 2012). This was 400 miles away from Benghazi they dispatch 22 men from the aircraft. However there was a problem as the individuals dispatched had neither experience nor the essential equipments that would have otherwise assisted in the aid of helping the hostages as compared to the specials forces f Europe. It portrays the Obama administration being incompetent; others showed support to his administration due to the political affiliation of being as democrat.
Benghazi scandal become an issue because of the way it was handled according to the media responds and the videos that rocked the social media portrayed the issue as devastating and not appealing at all. The news in the CNN state that there was no denial of the backup but the issue was they took time in responding as respired they scattered that they needed to know what was going on before acting. It has been long after the Benghazi incident occurred and the real facts about the incidence have not been revealed even after the detailed forensic teams were assigned to do the investigation concerning the matter (CNN, 2013). The Benghazi issue showed the process of discrepancies the security panel have been facing and the issue of the nation’s relation in response of the issues that conceal the need f having a reliable security for the ambassadors and diplomats especially on the nations that would be attacked.
The white house have been contemplating on how they will deal with the security of as trying to speak over the given facts tent to show the essence of fraught which depicts in its own fraud. America was in no way willing to deal with the issue of punitive measures. The CBS reports the article that it presents the a sixty minutes apologizing about Benghazi report they apologize that they were wrong in presenting the issue of Benghazi they apologized to all people and the viewers.
In conclusion the Benghazi report was reported differently by the media and created controversies and scandal. Benghazi became famous for all the wrong reasons. The confusing media reports made people react differently and the essence of blame game erupted as each individual that was concerned tried to give a report about the issue and illustrate the need to beef up the security in all the diplomats. The media coverage and they failed to cover on the reason why the issue occurred but the media focused on the criticism and depicting the negative part only. The media therefore lost its role of passing the right information to the public by concentrating more on entertainment and partisan issues and this further led to diversion of the attention of the public.
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