Bush's War-And Our Own

... fewer than thirty percent of Americans polled now say they are following events in Iraq "very closely." Although leading media executives cite any number of excuses for the decline in attention -- the danger and expense in covering Iraq, shrinking budgets and a presidential campaign that is also straining their resources, a national economy in crisis - the bottom line for concerned citizens has been a severe drop in coverage of the war. The three ... Full Story »

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Roland F. Hirsch
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by Roland F. Hirsch - Oct. 1, 2008

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.

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