There may still be a war raging in Iraq, the Americans have something like 150,000 troops in the country - and the war is costing the US untold billions of dollars - and then there is that upcoming presidential election [what do the candidates intend to "do" about Iraq?], but it seems that the TV nightly news bulletins aren't really interested in providing any news of the Iraq War.
As the NY Times reports:
"According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television consultant who monitors the three network evening newscasts, coverage of Iraq has been “massively scaled back this year.” Almost halfway into 2008, the three newscasts have shown 181 weekday minutes of Iraq coverage, compared with 1,157 minutes for all of 2007. The “CBS Evening News” has devoted the fewest minutes to Iraq, 51, versus 55 minutes on ABC’s “World News” and 74 minutes on “NBC Nightly News.” (The average evening newscast is 22 minutes long.)
CBS News no longer stations a single full-time correspondent in Iraq, where some 150,000 United States troops are deployed."
Nothing like having one's head in the sand or ignoring the human cost of the whole misadventure known as the Iraq War. Read the full NY Times piece here.
As the NY Times reports:
"According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television consultant who monitors the three network evening newscasts, coverage of Iraq has been “massively scaled back this year.” Almost halfway into 2008, the three newscasts have shown 181 weekday minutes of Iraq coverage, compared with 1,157 minutes for all of 2007. The “CBS Evening News” has devoted the fewest minutes to Iraq, 51, versus 55 minutes on ABC’s “World News” and 74 minutes on “NBC Nightly News.” (The average evening newscast is 22 minutes long.)
CBS News no longer stations a single full-time correspondent in Iraq, where some 150,000 United States troops are deployed."
Nothing like having one's head in the sand or ignoring the human cost of the whole misadventure known as the Iraq War. Read the full NY Times piece here.
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