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How America's Mainstream Media Gradually Abandoned Iraq

alternet.org — The decline in coverage of Iraq has been staggering.For long stretches over the past 12 months, Iraq virtually disappeared from the front pages of the nation's newspapers and from the nightly network newscasts. The American press and the American people had lost interest in the war.

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  • jerger23, on 06/05/2008, -0/+3The media generally only cares about shock-factor stories; which unfortunately seems to include the deaths of service members, large scale attacks on military and civilian targets, and other tragedies of war. The daily improvements made in the country (schools and hospitals as DavidS9 mentioned) are just not worth the air time in the eyes of the media.
  • DavidS9, on 06/05/2008, -1/+3The press and the people of the US did not lose interest in the war in Iraq. They just don't want to hear any good news about it.

    The Liberal media doesn't want to know that a hundred schools and hospitals have been built, they just want to know that a hundred soldiers have died in some horrible fashion.
  • inactive, on 06/05/2008, -3/+2Seriously, you nuts need to give up on the "liberal media" catch-phrase. It's as credible as "stay the course" and "WMD."

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