Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Can TV news make Iraq any more invisible?


My God, Man, you don't honestly expect the TV news media to cover more than one horror at a time do you?

TV news celebs are herding animals, don't you know?

Can TV news make Iraq any more invisible?:

As Iraq was crowded off TV screens last week by the fighting in Lebanon, a question came to mind: Are Americans getting the information they need to intelligently judge progress -- or lack of it -- in the war on terror?

No, or at least not as the Middle East exploded last week.
Americans saw injured Lebanese kids, sobbing widows in Beirut and -- to a decidedly lesser extent -- Israelis taking cover from Hezbollah rockets.

At the same time, on Thursday, car bombs and rockets ripped through an upscale Baghdad neighborhood. Businesses were burned. Buildings collapsed. At least 25 civilians died, and dozens more were injured.

We saw almost none of this on the tube, dominated this night by high-profile news personalities relocated to Lebanon.

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