David Carr of the NY Times Whines About Iraq.

The Virginian ^ | 5/28/2008 | Moneyrunner

[moneyrunner]

David Carr complains about The Wars We Choose to Ignore

And what war are “we” ignoring … and who is “we” white man? Why the war in Iraq of course. And the “we” is

...public indifference to a war that refuses to end,

As if the war was an over-long third act of a tiresome Broadway play that David Carr is reviewing.

Well, Mr. Carr how do “we” know that the public is indifferent to the war in Iraq? Certainly not the people who are fighting there, and their families. Perhaps the “we” is the MSM, of which you are a perfect specimen.

According to the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s News Coverage Index, coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has slipped to 3 percent of all American print and broadcast news as of last week, falling from 25 percent as recently as last September.

Hmmm. That’s not the public, is it Mr. Carr. It’s a statistic that is squarely aimed at the MSM.

Countercolumn has some sharp words for Mr. Carr of the NY Times and his whine.

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Dear Mr. Carr,

It's too bad you took what should have been a moving profile of Jessica Ann Ellis and turned it into a journo's whine-fest.

Coverage is down on Iraq because American troops are bleeding less, and for no other reason. If Americans were bleeding more, it would be right back on the front pages. And every reporter knows this.

Katie Couric didn't get crap ratings because she went to Iraq. Couric got crap ratings because it was HER going to Iraq. Nobody cares what that twit thinks about Iraq. She never should have been promoted past any one of fifty real journalists at CBS to the anchor's chair, and the ratings bear that out.

[xcamel]

David Carr Whines .

That's all that was needed for Capt'n Obvious to swoop in...

[avacado]

"We need more American & Iraqi blood on the TV because "we the media" will not cover positive news and victory in Iraq. And that tingle up my leg is no mystery... And if you haven't guessed... I support gay marriage."

[Viking2002]

I view urban New Yawkers in general (and Slimes scribes specifically) in the same way that your garden-variety zoogoer gawks at a monkey in a cage: with a perverse, this-is-too-surreal fascination. And in that same vein, it's hard to wrap your mind around the possibility that we may, somehow, some way, be remotely related on the genetic family tree.

[moneyrunner]

An oddly attractive man?

[shaft29]

He also whined when he was cut by the Panthers.