Mainstream Media Ignoring War in Iraq

J.J. Jackson* | March 18, 2008

Filed Under Liberal Media, Terrorism, War On Terror

Well of course they are. Polls are consistently showing that Americans have a more favorable view of the effort and with all the good news about people climbing up out of a dictatorship, why on Earth would the media want to cover it?

Statistics clearly illustrate the diminished attention. For the first 10 weeks of the year, the war accounted for 3 percent of television, newspaper and Internet stories in the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s survey of news coverage. During the same period in 2007, Iraq filled 23 percent of the news hole.

The difference is even more stark on cable news networks: 24 percent of the time spent on Iraq last year, just 1 percent this year.

Good news just doesn’t sell apparently. It should be no coincidence that favorable opinions of the war have also gone up as negative coverage of every Islamic wacko with a bomb strapped to their child has gone down.
Some people blame it on “fatigue” with the American people over the war. But the only “fatigue” that appears to be happening is on the part of the news media who don’t have enough gore to warrant much coverage of the effort.

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