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The NYT attempts to work out why coverage of the war has declined. After exploring a range of possible reasons - reduced public interest, danger to reporters, shrinking newsroom budgets, lack of a compelling narrative, cloying Georgio Moroder soundtrack - this longshot receives passing mention:
The drop accelerated with a sharp decline in violence in Iraq that began at the end of last summer. The last six months have been safer for American troops than any comparable period since the war began ...
They might be on to something.
(Via Alan R.M. Jones)
UPDATE. Bad news from Iraq is suddenly Time’s top online story:
Death had been taking something of a holiday in Iraq, but it seemed to come back from vacation with a vengeance on Easter, with ominous implications for American strategy. Sunday dawned in Baghdad’s Green Zone with a barrage of mortars courtesy of Shi’ite militiamen. Several more mortars poured in throughout the day. Meanwhile, attacks across Iraq on Sunday killed dozens of people, including four American soldiers in a deadly roadside bombing in southern Baghdad. That last incident raised the number of U.S. military fatalities in Iraq to 4,000. While an American military spokesman pointed out that “no casualty is more or less significant than another,” the timing of the ramped-up violence is telling.
The timing of many things is telling. As is the “ramping up”.
How about this for a reason: Leftwing bias coupled with unethical and unprofessional journalistic practices.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 03 24 at 11:48 AM • permalinkHere are some other options: distraction from proselytizing for the Obamessiah, too much time spent deciding how not to cover the den of iniquity that is the Governor’s Mansion in Albany, or fatigue brought on by the latter stages of BDS.
Posted by charles austin on 2008 03 24 at 01:51 PM • permalinkUnless they suspect they’ll lie.
What d’you mean “suspect”, Dave? They know that they lie. Ergo, they won’t ask themselves.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 03 24 at 02:44 PM • permalink#12 Kae, or as the MSM have it, good news is bad news.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 24 at 07:39 PM • permalinkGet your Grim Milestones here! USA has over 40,000 road deaths annually.
#10—The coalition is beating the insurgency? That’s not what is being reported in the media. If it’s not reported, how can it possibly be true?
It’s a quagmire. US military presence is the cause that recruits terrorists for the insurgency. The US is responsible for the populist insurgency—which is attempting to oust the occupying military forces. The sooner the US leaves the sooner the Iraqi people can manage their own unique process of self-determination.
The coalition is winning? How could that be a compelling narrative? Such would run counter to the narrative the media has been spinning for over five years. It would destroy the remaining, minuscule, credibility that the media has to report news, as opposed to being an active political wing of the Democratic Party. And we can’t have that.
Hint: sarcasm involved.
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Wait a sec—you mean a decline in sticks with which to beat a Republican administration bears a direct correlation to a decline in interest in the topic? No way!