The future of war and news for that matter is here, and it won’t be televised — it’ll be on social media.
A major world event occurred on Monday; Kurdish forces invaded the ISIS-held city of Mosul in Northern Iraq and live streamed it on social media. The city fell to the Islamic State back in 2014 and has been their longest stronghold, but no major American news organization picked it up.
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Facebook Live was another story. Bloomberg News reported that nearly a million people tuned into Al Jazeera’s social media account to watch the battle in real time.
Where was the American media during this time? Talking about videotapes and allegations from decades ago as they have been for the past two weeks.
Showing ISIS in defeat is a significant victory in the war against terror. For too long now, terrorists have dominated the internet with scarce live footage showing them losing ground.
While the Kurdish officials were able to set up the camera in the safest area surrounding Mosul and zoomed in to watch the battle, guerrilla journalism used by citizens and distributed online is the new standard for groundbreaking news.
The video footage of Hillary Clinton passing out at the 9/11 memorial wasn’t a product of any mass media; it was a guy with a flip phone on Twitter.
Streaming news content has moved far beyond political speeches and live interviews. As Americans grow increasingly distrustful of the mainstream media, hard content including war won’t be televised it will be streamed into your phones.
