Given the amount of media attention the war in Iraq gets how many reporters would you say are in Iraq?  Reporters representing every single news media orgaization in the world?

Personally my guess was a vague “several hundred,” but it turns out it’s more like nine.

I’ve been watching that reality television show Tabloid Wars pretty faithfully (season 1 is over now) and I’ve seen more reporters turn out for a Catholic priest sex scandal.  Of course, deploying reporters to a story that’s right in New York is a lot easier than shipping them out to Iraq, but still.  The war in Iraq has been the biggest on-going news story in the world since we invaded that country back in 2003.  You’d think it’d warrant more than 9 reporters.

Then again, that number probably doesn’t count all the terror-sympathizing Islamic stringers the media hires to bring us our “objective” war news.