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SUCCESS IN IRAQ: A MEDIA BLACKOUT

nypost.com — DO we still have troops in Iraq? Is there still a conflict over there? If you rely on the so-called mainstream media, you may have difficulty answering those questions these days. As Iraqi and Coalition forces pile up one success after another, Iraq has magically vanished from the headlines...

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  • Surferess, on 05/20/2008, -1/+3Let's face it, News orgs are in business to sell ads and make money. It would be nice if that were not true, but it is. Additionally, news orgs have to continually make the news more about entertainment than content in order to bring in the younger viewer. Most Americans get upset about the war, so why remind them? They will generally go with a story about the election instead because that is hot - war is not.
    • mustangmike53, on 05/20/2008, -1/+2So, no bias or ill-will is involved in the burial of positive news out of Iraq and the above-the-fold banner headlines for bad or unflattering news? It's just about entertaining stories that will sell ads?
      Well, they're missing the boat. It's the negative stories that people are shunning as the newspapers sit unsold. Pick up a dispatch from Michael Yon and see if you can put it down without finishing it. The real news from Iraq is riveting and uplifting, but it doesn't fit the agenda of the left in their drive to discredit the President and get democrats elected. Hey NYT! The truth will not only set you free, it will sell papers!
  • chicofaraby, on 05/21/2008, -1/+2Yeah, it's all the "success" in Iraq that the "liberal media" is against. That's why they never ran stories about how many WMD Iraq had.

    Jeebus, NewCorp prints the STUPIDEST *****.
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