The negative impact on morale is not necessarily a result of the media attention given to Lynch as much as the almost complete lack of attention given to anyone else.
During World War II, certain individuals such as Audie Murphy, the Sullivan Brothers, the crew of the B-17 Memphis Belle, etc., were singled out for special hype. However, the news media also went out of it's way to give Average G.I. Joe his "attaboy" too. Ernie Pyle dedicated his life to such reporting.
Now, the Liberal news media makes it perfectly clear that they are not interested in publicizing any good that any average servicemember is doing in Iraq. In fact, the Liberal news media goes out of it's way to portray the work of these servicemembers in the worst possible light.
A case in point: There has been much talk the last few days of the "Day of Resistance" that the die-hard terrorists have been planning. When CNN reported on it yesterday, the news babe announced that, "The Iraqis were planning a Day of Resistance". Not the Baathists. Not the foreign jihadists. The "Iraqis".
The message the Liberal news media is sending to the Average G.I. Joe is: "If you're not blonde and cute we couldn't care less about you. The good work that you are doing will never be reported to the folks back home. In fact, you aren't doing any good at all because all you are doing is oppressing the "Iraqis" and all of the "Iraqis" want you dead."
Neither Tokyo Rose nor Axis Sally could have ever dreamed of undermining the morale of the American war effort in World War II as much as the American Liberal media does now.