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Argentinian Press Perspectives on the War in the Falkland Islands

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the subject of a war between the UK and Argentina. The media was as enthusiastic to report the details as the public were to know them. In the UK the  predominate mood was that the Argentineans were wrong, but the press were free to report how they felt fit. Anti war perspective were not popular, and frowned upon, but  it was not a military matter (McSmith , 1983). On the other hand, in Argentina there was a military junta, no freedom of the press, but still overwhelming support for  the war. It is fair to say that in war no side will feel that they are in the wrong, truth and tight are matters of perspective, and when the  perspective is given by a newspaper this may be questionable to say the least. In looking at this war in order to appreciate the significant of the media we need  to consider this from the perspective of Argentina. On the 2nd of April 1982, exactly twenty years ago, a force or commandos from the South American Mainland  country of Argentina landed on the British Colony of the Falklands in the South Atlantic, at the same time a force also landed and took over the island of Thule,  which was the main location of the British Antarctic Survey Unit. However, the triggering invasion occurred on March the 19th when a force of Argentinean "scrap metal dealers" raised the  Argentinean flag over the British island of South Georgia. The Argentines have known these islands as the Malvinas, and in looking at their claim to them this also goes  back a long way (UN Chronicle, 1982). However, the oil reserves that formed a part of the islands must also have been very attractive (Pinto, 1983). The Falklands