In March, 2004, nearly two hundred people were killed and hundreds more wounded in suicide attacks on the occasion of the Ashurah, the holiest day in the Shi’ite calendar. The disaster led the news. last year Karbala was relatively calm, but there were bombings in Baghdad. Again, big news. This year, millions of people filled the streets of Karbala, and there was no violence. And Baghdad was also pretty calm. You might think this was newsworthy, but of course you’d be wrong. And you know why the MSM did not compare this year's celebration with those of the recent past: the comparison would have suggested progress, and that's taboo. Better to focus on Cheney's TV preferences.
Exactly.
Funny how we're always hearing about things going to hell in Iraq, yet when progress is made (like the fact that the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq has gone down every month for the last six months, the longest consistently downward trend in casualties since the war began) and nobody ever reports it.
Yeah, yeah. We've been over this a million times. The excuses from "good news doesn't sell papers" to "nothing good ever really happens in Iraq."
Whatever.
We hear about every single car bombing, every single gun battle, in gory detail, yet we never hear a thing about soldiers going above and beyond the call of duty. We never hear a thing about heroics and valor.
You think those things aren't happening in Iraq? Well they are, you just aren't hearing about them because the folks in the media has decided that things like that aren't newsworthy.