What IRONY, considering the source asking the question, "eh, readers?
Also see: The War Whore Kyra Phillips
"The War Endures, but Where’s the Media?" by RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Five years later, the United States remains at war in Iraq, but there are days when it would be hard to tell from a quick look at television news, newspapers and the Internet.
Speak for your shit-stink selves, you blind shit-spewers!!!!
I'm so tired of the arrogance of AmeriKa's shit MSM, readers!!!!
Media attention on Iraq began to wane after the first months of fighting, but as recently as the middle of last year, it was still the most-covered topic.
Just below Britany, Paris, O.J., Heath Ledger, etc., etc.
Readers, I can't take this self-serving, soft-serve, Times shit anymore!!!!
Since then, Iraq coverage by major American news sources has plummeted, to about one-fifth of what it was last summer, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Yeah, I KNOW!! That's MY JOB!!
Looking for that shit every day, and EXPOSING the Zionist-controlled MSM's BIAS and LIES!!!!
Also see: Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
The drop in coverage parallels — and may be explained by — a decline in public interest.
Yeah, if you liars say it, it's true.
Can you pass me that grain of salt, readers?
Any visitor to my blog will quickly find that MY INTEREST NEVER WANED!!!
What has also not waned is the MSM's shit coverage and lies!!!!
Surveys by the Pew Research Center show that more than 50 percent of Americans said they followed events in Iraq “very closely” in the months just before and after the war began, but that slid to an average of 40 percent in 2006, and has been running below 30 percent since last fall.
Experts offer many other explanations for the declining media focus, like the danger and expense in covering Iraq, and shrinking newsroom budgets.
Well, I am TIRED of the MSM EXCUSES!!!
I've got NOTHING -- no ad money, nothing -- and I GET BY!
Cry me a fucking river, shit Times!!!!
Also see:
Bloggers 1; New York Times 0
Bloggers 476; MainStream Media 0 (F)
The Sucking Sound at the Washington Post
The Boston Globe Joins the New York Times and Washington Post in the Crapper
The Sinking New York Times Cuts the Boston Globe Loose
In the last year, a flagging economy and the most competitive presidential campaign in memory have diverted attention and resources.
As well as a concerted MSM and government campaign to do just such a thing.
NOT FOOLEYED ANYMORE, shitters!!!!!
“Vietnam held the media’s attention a lot better because it was a war with a draft that touched a lot more people; people were sent against their will, and many more Americans were killed,” said Alex S. Jones, director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard.
“In a conventional war, like World War II, there’s dramatic change, a moving front line, a compelling narrative,” he said. But after the triumphal first months, Iraq became a war of insurgents vs. counterinsurgents, harder to make sense of, “with more of the same grim news, day after day.”
Yeah, we Americans don't give a shit about mass-murdering lies and bloodshed in our name.
We'd rather be sniffing some starlets butt-crack.
The three broadcast networks’ nightly newscasts devoted more than 4,100 minutes to Iraq in 2003 and 3,000 in 2004, before leveling off at about 2,000 a year, according to Andrew Tyndall, who monitors the broadcasts and posts detailed breakdowns at tyndallreport.com. And by the last months of 2007, he said, the broadcasts were spending half as much time on Iraq as earlier in the year.
That's why the shit-chewing public thinks the surge worked and scarfs down a whole host of other bullshit propaganda!
Since the start of last year, the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a part of the nonprofit Pew Research Center, has tracked reporting by several dozen major newspapers, cable stations, broadcast television networks, Web sites and radio programs. Iraq accounted for 18 percent of their prominent news coverage in the first nine months of 2007, but only 9 percent in the following three months, and 3 percent so far this year.
So in 2008, the Iraq coverage is down to 3 PERCENT?!?!
No wonder I am SWEARING MY ASS OFF!!!
Yup, after NO ONE LISTENED TO US for FIVE YEARS, the Zionist-controlled and agenda-promoting AmeriKan MSM made the war DISAPPEAR!!!
Isn't that great, Week-Ender Shit-Eater?
Now when the coverage comes back up it will be the same as September -- a Puke-tray-us cock suck with the alleged reduced violence!
Heard it here first, readers!
The policy debate in Washington that dominated last year’s Iraq coverage has almost disappeared from the news. And reporting on events in Iraq has fallen by more than two-thirds from a year ago.
EXCEPT on the BLOGS!!!!!!!!
The NEW NEWS!!!!
Bye, old MSM liars!!!!!!!!
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, with about 33 killed each month, compared with about 91 a month over the previous year.
Even though 2007 was the HIGHEST TOTAL of U.S. deaths -- some 901 last year!
And yet, the AmeriKan MSM and government have turned that into a success!!
After we were told the occupation would be paid for by Iraq oil revenues, and Rumsfeld said he doubted the "war" would be six months!
Welcoming to the AmeriKan MSM looking glass, readers!
“The available news hole got so much smaller because election and economic news took up so much of the space,” said Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Center.
Yeah, the ZIONIST-CONTROLLED MEDIA SET the AGENDA!!!!
There are no authoritative figures for most media coverage before 2007. But a check of several large and midsize newspapers’ archives shows a year-by-year decline in articles about Iraq, and an increase in the proportion supplied by wire services. Experts who follow the coverage say there is no doubt about the trend.
Because people are realizing NEWSPAPERS SUCK because they LIE TO US!!!!!
“I was getting on average three to five calls a day for interviews about the war” in the first years, said Michael E. O’Hanlon, a senior fellow on national security at the Brookings Institution. “Now it’s less than one a day.”
He argued that Americans who support the war might not have wanted to follow the news when it was bad, and that Americans against the war are less interested now that the news is better.
O'Hanlon, you are such a piece of garbage!!!
And the presidential candidates, he said, have shown “surprisingly little interest in discussing it in detail.”
Because to do so would ANGER the Zionist masters!!!
Duh!!
Many news organizations have fewer people in Iraq than they once did, though no definitive numbers are available. Coalition officials have said that although there were several hundred reporters embedded with military units early in the war, the number has been measured in tens in recent months.
Violence against journalists makes reporting on Iraq costly and difficult; executives of The New York Times have said that the newspaper is spending more than $3 million a year to cover Iraq. The risks have forced news organizations to hire private security forces and Iraqi employees who can go places that Westerners cannot safely explore.
Yeah, you are a real trooper, Times!
Pfffffttttt!
Thanks for all the FRONT-PAGE LIES that got us in there!
From the start of the war through 2005, journalists and their support workers were killed in Iraq at a rate of one every 12 days, according to tallies kept by the nonprofit Committee to Protect Journalists. In 2006 and 2007, the rate was one every eight days. Most of those killed have been Iraqis.
For God's sake, forget your shitstink elite selves!!!
What about the IRAQIS?
Because the number of Iraqis killed by the surge has been around 300 per day, 10,000 per month -- with 1.2 million Iraqis dead since the invasion.
Also see: Story Iraq: MSM Lied About Death Tolls
Memory Hole: 600,000 DEAD!
Occupation Iraq: One Million Dead Iraqis
“Danger and the expense are gigantic factors,” Mr. Jones said. “The news media have to constantly revisit how much money and risk to expend.”
Again, what about all the IRAQIS?
And still think the shitter MSM is telling you the truth, readers?
