I thought the presentation about photographers in World War II was interesting because the photographers and journalists today still have the same complaints about being censored by the government. While I agree that their job is very important to document and make a visual record of the war of the public; I feel that a little censorship is not bad. I personally don’t feel that a photographer should publish the last moments of a dying soldier or the faces of dead soldiers that are blown apart. The reason is that they have families and I do not feel it is right to do that to the family members.
The battle of Metz I thought showed that the Allies had a lot to improve in their intelligence gathering and they failed to learn lessons from the Germans about not attacking fortified defenses. In addition, it showed their failure to train for possible follow on missions after the initial invasion of Europe. However, I wonder if Metz would have been such a blood bath if the Allies supply chain would have been working properly and Patton do not have to stop for supplies before the attack.
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This presentation was interesting to me for the same fact that this type of censorship is still prominent in todays media, whereas, many times it is the behind the scenes that many like to see so that the vast economy can access and learn or be exposed to the real situation."the strategy of truth" is something that becomes more interesting as the facts of materials used and the actual film that was developed and printed in major publications and even that of film shot, and how much of the film was edited to piece together this idea of a "strategy of truth".
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