Posted on 10/17/2008 8:30:16 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Well, this is a new one. In an October 11 story, the 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?
The Post even quotes Alissa J. Rubin, The New York Times Iraq bureau chief, that there is "no clear narrative" over there anymore. Once again, this can easily be interpreted to mean that no clear losing narrative has left the media's attention wandering. Even worse Rubin almost seems to admit that they can't handle a "complex" story suddenly.
"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."
And they say that Sarah Palin can’t understand foreign policy!...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
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?
Translation: It's getting almost impossible to spin this story as a negative. So we'll just quit reporting on it.
That, and spending too much money investigating The Palin family and Joe, the plumber.
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.
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