News just isn't what it used to be.....

bravo said:
U.S. Military Afghan War Casualties in 2010 Almost Double Those from Same Period in 2009

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/61632

Funny how you just don't hear this on the msm....when Bush was president, every body bag made headlines........
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I know. Its a total trip. Shame on the msm. I'm not being sarcastic, I find it pathetic and revolting how the media report based on the opinion of the public and the party of the king. These wars are huge news, but now that there's a Democrat leader in the Whitehouse, we're not hearing about it as much.

The blood that is shed is no different. Our media are a joke.
 
Beefy said:
I know. Its a total trip. Shame on the msm. I'm not being sarcastic, I find it pathetic and revolting how the media report based on the opinion of the public and the party of the king. These wars are huge news, but now that there's a Democrat leader in the Whitehouse, we're not hearing about it as much.

The blood that is shed is no different. Our media are a joke.
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True that.
 
I was just thinking "WTF is going on in afghanistan! We have a zillion 24 hr news channels and not shit about our ONGOING WARS! ".


Im so pissed right now.
 
Damocles said:
Dude, it was all we heard about. There is no comparison here. Which talking head that used to constantly bring up the body count on the tube brings it up now? This stuff was in your face during Bush, it's taken a vacation.
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What was all we heard about and when? Afghanistan was largely forgotten for pretty much the entire period from 2003 to 2009 and then began to get some additional focus.

We did indeed hear a lot about Iraq from 2003 to 2008 or so and for good reason. There is indeed no comparison to Iraq circa 2003 to 2007 and Afghanistan in the present.

In the end, I concede that coverage of the wars has dwindled, but I sense it has a bit more to do with the fact that our economy imploded than it has to do with the party of the person occupying the White House.
 
NigelTufnel said:
What was all we heard about and when? Afghanistan was largely forgotten for pretty much the entire period from 2003 to 2009 and then began to get some additional focus.

We did indeed hear a lot about Iraq from 2003 to 2008 or so and for good reason. There is indeed no comparison to Iraq circa 2003 to 2007 and Afghanistan in the present.

In the end, I concede that coverage of the wars has dwindled, but I sense it has a bit more to do with the fact that our economy imploded than it has to do with the party of the person occupying the White House.
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Disingenuous. The media went after the higher count and drubbed on it from here to eternity. On the months it was Afghanistan we heard about it, repeatedly, and about how we were "losing" at every turn, most times that count was higher in Iraq so we heard about that one. Now we have counts in both, and near silence.

It's just total BeeEss to pretend that the coverage is the same now as it was before.
 
This is a fallacy. It's called "war fatigue," and the media had it throughout 2008 and even in 2007.

We hardly read about casualties OR the war anymore in the last year of Bush's Presidency. It wasn't "all we heard about" anymore. The media & the country simply didn't want to hear about it, and still don't.

Face it - both Afghanistan & Iraq have been excruciatingly long wars.
 
The media reports what sells, not some political adgenda.

You market economists should understand this....
 
Ice Dancer said:
The MSM sells leftist policies and the American people are rejecting it, that's why they are losing market share.
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If that is the case, MSN will soon change format or go out of business. You cant keep such a thing up for long, you will be put out of business by those who sell what the people want.
 
msn will do fine, Obertool will get a raise and Fox will continue to drub them and cnn's ratings combined.
 
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