The news and entertainment media do have a strong influence on the ideas of the general populace. By the First Amendment, news and entertainment media do have a right to speak out to the people of the United States of America. The authors Kurt Vonnegut and Rodney Smolla explain how news and entertainment media have a strong influence on the idea of the people of the United States of America. The author, Kurt Vonnegut, wrote a novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, about the Battle of the Bulge in Europe in December 1944. The novel burnt in a furnace by a school janitor in Drake, North Dakota because there was a quote spoken by an American Antitank gunner to an unarmed American Chaplain’s Assistant during the battle of the Bulge that contained vulgar
