Although the story rightly lays blame for Iraq at the feet of Rumsfeld and Cheney, it's also a commercial for the upcoming PBS 2-part Frontline special about the war. While media coverage of the war has dropped 80%, it doesn't mean Americans have changed their opinion of Iraq. Over 70% remain firmly against Iraq but are fed up hearing about it. Most people are now concerned about dealing with the results of the huge oost of this war: deep recession, outrageous gas prices, crashing of the dollar, and the rapidly shrinking buying power of Americans.

This opinion piece has little journalistic value. It promotes a program on Frontline, one of the least trusted of all TV opinion programs. There is no effort to provide balance for any of the opinions reported from the program. The New York Times is cited about "waning media attention to Iraq" but the author does not point out that the trust in this newspaper has dropped because readers know that the editor and publisher force their prejudices on everything the paper prints. Informed people now prefer to read expert reporters such as Totten and Yon instead of the reports in the old media they know are biased. The writer of this piece should have provided that context.