Wednesday, July 29, 2009

where's the media coverage about iraq?

from the brilliance that is charles krauthammer:

"The coverage of Iraq is driven by three factors: American casualties, media interest, presidential interest.

Our casualties are at a record low. The media interest is zero (a) because if you run a good news story, it's a retroactive vindication of the Bush administration and nobody in the press wants that; if you run a bad news story, it's a story that might imply that Obama is losing the war already won.

 

But a third factor here is presidential interest. Obama is not interested in Iraq. He is only interested to the extent that he doesn't want to lose this war. But he wants it off his plate."


http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YTA4Y2FmOTZiZWJhZTNhOWQ4ZDViMGNhZmU1MzYwYTM=

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