[Mobile Vulgus]

The media is becoming the enemy!

[dirtboy]

They can send a team of reporters to Alaska to dig for any possible speck of dirt against Sarah Palin, but can’t bother sending a reporter to Baghdad?

[dirtboy]

"It remains important and it remains interesting," said Alissa J. Rubin, the New York Times' acting bureau chief in Baghdad. "But what's in front of us now is almost a static situation. There's not a clear narrative line. The stories are more complex."

Translation: It's getting almost impossible to spin this story as a negative. So we'll just quit reporting on it.

[LucyJo]

Washington Post is saying that one of the biggest reasons that the Old Media in the west isn't covering Iraq much these days is because they are facing tough financial times at home. I guess it couldn't be because we are now winning the war and they've lost their favorite doom-and-gloom story line, could it?

That, and spending too much money investigating The Palin family and Joe, the plumber.

[kabar]

Since July 1, a period of more than three and one-half months, there has been a total of 34 American KIAs. Most major Amercian cities top that monthly in terms of murder count.

[VOA]

The Post even quotes Alissa J. Rubin, The New York Times Iraq bureau
chief, that there is "no clear narrative" over there anymore.

Telling the public that their allies (the terrorists) are winning
just won't sell newspapers.
Because it's such a laughable lie that even the mentally-challenged
would recognize it.

[SandRat]

yet there's no ‘Financial Strain’ to cover 24/7 the latest misadventure of the latest Hollywood Tart/Cad or the High Lord Most Merciful Messiah Obama.