Środki masowego przekazu we współczesnym konflikcie zbrojnym casus Iraku w latach 2003-2010

It shall be stated in the article that mass media play a crucial impact in modern armed conflicts, particularly during the American aggression against Iraq in 2003; the attention was taken into the impact of mass media messages on the image of the audience about the war, conflict parties, the way media provide information and formulate information about the armed activities, motives of media use by parties to the conflict. The task of today's media is not only reporting on military actions, but the active shaping of reality. The messages emitted by the mass media are largely based on the use of allusions, over interpretation and emotional expressions to evoke certain social and national attitudes. The notion of truth in this case is intentionally reversed by the media. Both the U.S. Army and the Islamic radicals have used their own means of communication in order to present a biased opinion and subjective propaganda messages. Despite a significant interest of global media in the Iraqi conflict, each television station and news agency broadcast their messages in a separate way, and the content of the messages to a large extent was depended on the policy of the country in which the media operate.