Media Ignore Bloodiest month in Afghanistan?
what changed? Mmm 'Member when there were pictures of Stop the War? Code Pink?
excerpt:
"...During the year Osama bin Laden was killed, the war in Afghanistan made up just two percent of American news media coverage, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. If you add in coverage of bin Laden's death in Pakistan, the number is four percent. Based on the media's behavior so far this year, I would not be surprised if the death of Whitney Houston wound up generating just as much news coverage as the Afghanistan conflict in 2012.
On Monday -- the last day of a month in which at least 33 American troops were killed -- I saw a lengthy segment on Fox News about the one-year anniversary of Prince William's marriage to Kate Middleton. Since trivialities like a couple's anniversary are now deemed newsworthy by Fox and its competitors, one should not be surprised at the amount of stories we're seeing today about bin Laden. Today is simply another anniversary for the media to talk about.
Today is not just another day in the mountains of Afghanistan, where thousands of Americans who volunteered to fight for our country are separated from their loved ones. Some of these units have held memorial services for their friends over the past month, while others are thinking about their wounded brothers and sisters hospitalized in Bethesda, Md., and elsewhere.
War is the most serious, sobering reality for a country to face, and the national media, as well as many of us, are turning away..." more HERE
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/afghan-women-taliban-and-withdrawal-of.html
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/women-in-afghanistan-women-war-and.html
what changed? Mmm 'Member when there were pictures of Stop the War? Code Pink?
excerpt:
"...During the year Osama bin Laden was killed, the war in Afghanistan made up just two percent of American news media coverage, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. If you add in coverage of bin Laden's death in Pakistan, the number is four percent. Based on the media's behavior so far this year, I would not be surprised if the death of Whitney Houston wound up generating just as much news coverage as the Afghanistan conflict in 2012.
On Monday -- the last day of a month in which at least 33 American troops were killed -- I saw a lengthy segment on Fox News about the one-year anniversary of Prince William's marriage to Kate Middleton. Since trivialities like a couple's anniversary are now deemed newsworthy by Fox and its competitors, one should not be surprised at the amount of stories we're seeing today about bin Laden. Today is simply another anniversary for the media to talk about.
Today is not just another day in the mountains of Afghanistan, where thousands of Americans who volunteered to fight for our country are separated from their loved ones. Some of these units have held memorial services for their friends over the past month, while others are thinking about their wounded brothers and sisters hospitalized in Bethesda, Md., and elsewhere.
War is the most serious, sobering reality for a country to face, and the national media, as well as many of us, are turning away..." more HERE
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| photo credit HERE |
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/afghan-women-taliban-and-withdrawal-of.html
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/women-in-afghanistan-women-war-and.html
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