The Media’s Priorities In Covering Iraq Just Plain Suck
Which isn’t exactly news, I guess, but check this out:
Today Shiite strong man Muqtada al-Sadr agreed to another six-month cease fire, which is great news in terms of military and political progress in Iraq. Also today some terrorists made an impotent attack on the “green zone” in Iraq firing less than 10 rockets or mortars which neither injured nor killed anyone.
Which of these two events do you think the Associated Press chose to highlight with a headline?

That’s right. An unspecified number of an unspecified sort of explosive weapon were fired in Baghdad at nobody in particular and resulted in little damage and no injuries or deaths, and that was a higher priority story than one of our biggest enemies in the war continuing a cease fire.
We may be winning the real war right now, but our enemies are still winning the media war.














