Opening The Files: 7/25/06
There's a war on? You don't say!
From a media coverage standpoint, Iraq has all but dropped off the radar, to be replaced by the Israel/Lebanon blip. Occupations just don't have the same sort of appeal that invasions do. And since our invasion of Iraq was more then three years ago, the media has apparently decided to move on to greener pastures from which to milk ratings. Too bad our soldiers (and hundreds of civilians) continue to die over there every day.
Atrios was rendered speechless by a CNN headline "Iraq: The Forgotten War". Forgotten War? Was that suppose to be a rhetorical question? Did someone forget to add the superfluous question mark that CNN is so fond of? Cause I think it is a safe bet that the 140,000 US troops still stationed there, the families of the almost 2570 killed so far or even the families of the thousands of Iraqi civilians killed there are having a hard time forgetting there's a war going on. But fear not, CNN knows where the real story is.
With the media's attention so focused on the Israel/Lebanon dustup, Attytood has a dummies guide to getting your war covered on TV.
The Rude One notes how the media has consigned the bloodshed in Baghdad to "in other news". Creature points out that Bush and Co. are probably pretty happy about this disproportionate coverage. It would explain why they aren't doing much to put an end to the violence.
In Other News...
E&P reports that The Augusta Chronicle has switched from regular to diet Coulter.
From a media coverage standpoint, Iraq has all but dropped off the radar, to be replaced by the Israel/Lebanon blip. Occupations just don't have the same sort of appeal that invasions do. And since our invasion of Iraq was more then three years ago, the media has apparently decided to move on to greener pastures from which to milk ratings. Too bad our soldiers (and hundreds of civilians) continue to die over there every day.
Atrios was rendered speechless by a CNN headline "Iraq: The Forgotten War". Forgotten War? Was that suppose to be a rhetorical question? Did someone forget to add the superfluous question mark that CNN is so fond of? Cause I think it is a safe bet that the 140,000 US troops still stationed there, the families of the almost 2570 killed so far or even the families of the thousands of Iraqi civilians killed there are having a hard time forgetting there's a war going on. But fear not, CNN knows where the real story is.
With the media's attention so focused on the Israel/Lebanon dustup, Attytood has a dummies guide to getting your war covered on TV.
The Rude One notes how the media has consigned the bloodshed in Baghdad to "in other news". Creature points out that Bush and Co. are probably pretty happy about this disproportionate coverage. It would explain why they aren't doing much to put an end to the violence.
In Other News...
E&P reports that The Augusta Chronicle has switched from regular to diet Coulter.
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