CBS News no longer stations a single full-time correspondent in Iraq…

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-platform/editorial-writers-notebooks/2008/06/media-coverage-of-iraq-drops-dramatically/

Media coverage of Iraq drops dramatically

The New York Times describes an appearance by CBS News’ top foreign correspondent, Lara Logan, on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show where she talked about how hard it is to get news about Iraq printed these days. According to Ms. Logan, it takes a pretty extraordinary effort to get the networks to publish anything, as she joked:

“Generally what I say is, ‘I’m holding the armor-piercing R.P.G.,’ ‘It’s aimed at the bureau chief, and if you don’t put my story on the air, I’m going to pull the trigger.’ ”

But Ms. Logan is right. As the New York Times story goes on to note:

According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television consultant who monitors the three network evening newscasts, coverage of Iraq has been “massively scaled back this year.” Almost halfway into 2008, the three newscasts have shown 181 weekday minutes of Iraq coverage, compared with 1,157 minutes for all of 2007. The “CBS Evening News” has devoted the fewest minutes to Iraq, 51, versus 55 minutes on ABC’s “World News” and 74 minutes on “NBC Nightly News.” (The average evening newscast is 22 minutes long.)

CBS News no longer stations a single full-time correspondent in Iraq…

[Junkdrawer]

1. Iraq....Iraq...Aren't there rumors that people are being hurt there?

And maybe we have some indirect role in that? :shrug:

[AmyCamus]

2. The Military owns the news in Iraq.

I doubt there's any difference in what's reported by a correspondent in the Pentagon briefing room and what's said by a captive reporter in the Green Zone. Minus the rooftop photo-op, that is.

[havocmom]

4. Are they still allowing Limbaugh on Armed Forces Radio, in violation of the Hatch Act?

Blinding the public and brainwashing the troops... the DoD war on sanity marches on. x(

[havocmom]

3. I hope the shade of Don Harris haunts the enablers who made the decisions to not report on the war

I still miss Harris. We spent so many evenings together, tho he wasn't aware of our relationship. Figure many, many who finally came out against the war in Vietnam did so after watching Harris' almost nightly reports from that front.

CBS and the traitors who pull their strings learned from those days. Can't sell a war if people actually SEE the war.

[Joanie Baloney]

5. Hmmm...

I guess we need our own U.S. version of Al-Jazeera to get "fair and balanced" news coverage of the war. Maybe based at Dover A.F.B., Delaware. I knew it wasn't a hot topic anymore for the networks when Lara Logan starting reporting from Afghanistan again. She's the best.

-JB

[spanone]

6. the fewer the reporters the better the surge is going

[HEyHEY]

7. It's because people are getting bored with it

Disgusts me too. News editors will literally say, "Who cares" when a there's a bombing or something there. But, not even having a staffer there? That's just unreal.