Have you noticed the media has stopped talking about Iraq?

[DaveSZ]

Americans are still dying there, but the media is almost silent...

What does this mean in your view, and why are they shielding the American people from the truth?

[sandnsea]

1. I got a delightful response

One of the Oregonian's reporters has been blogging from Iraq. All gung ho and rosy and ain't these soldiers brave! So I wrote him and wondered where all the stories were about Baghdad outside the Green Zone and Iraq outside Baghdad. And why were the troops asking for donations of school supplies if we'd been so successful in our school reconstruction program.

His response:

"Well at least you took the trouble to write."

The newspaper sends a guy all the way to Iraq because people were complaining about the war coverage, and that's the response we get. :eyes:

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. From the Reichfuerher, Iraq is verboten

This is a subject you should not touch upon any more

Next stop is our war against Eurasia, as we make peace with East Asia

All kidding aside, I noticed and they are trying to protect Bush... Casualties in July were higher than in June and I mean our casualties

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Because they're (cough.. cough) "sovereign", dammit!

Therefore it's not a war.

[Djinn]

4. they report in soundbites

meaning the complexities were never reported it was always simply:

"US forces arrested/killed X number of terrorists in Fallujah (or wherever" or "X number of US soldiers were killed today.."

after a while repeating the above is kinda dull.

[madrchsod]

5. Iraq? what`s that?

and isn`t there something else....i.....forgot......hmmmmm.....HEY! WAIT A MINUTE!!!! where`s that guy that sent the anthrax that killed all those people? where is the anthrax killer--RIGHT NOW--

[Robbien]

6. The GOP media center in Iraq has been disbanded

and the embassy has been told to keep in the background. With security so bad, reporters are all hold up behind barriers.

Sounds like a planned media blackout to me.

[Only Me]

9. "Sounds like a planned media blackout to me." and me too. n/t

[buycitgo]

7. they have MUCH more important things to talk about

Laci

Hacking

Michael J

this, of course

[Only Me]

8. What their still dying? But Bush said the war was over! (Heavy Sarcasm)

:eyes: The media is being quite because if they speak about it
they might have to report about it. Shrub probably tells the media
"don't stir up the political waters, you are just creating more
international hostilities by reporting these things." In essence,
stimulationg terrorists to hate us more. And the American people to
forget what we don't hear about...and honestly, alot of them do.

I believe thats why the are so right since the prison scandals.
In my humble opinion anyway.

[LibDemAlways]

10. Heard Amy Goodman interview

a freelance journalist from Baghdad one day not long ago, and he said the situation was so dangerous over there that most reporters were afraid to leave their hotel rooms. Can't very well accurately report what's going on if you fear for your life and won't go outside.

Besides, the situation has deteriorated to the point that there's no way to put a positive spin on it as mandated by the thugs in the WH. Thus, all the American corporate press can do is ignore it and hope no one notices.