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Only Two Newspapers Put 4,000 US Troop Deaths on Front Page
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The world the media sees simply isn’t the world as it is. That’s axiomatic here 5 years after the beginning of the Iraq War where the media served as cheerleaders. (Perhaps they were following Bush’s lead, he having served as a cheerleader at Yale.) Katharine Zaleski of Huffington Post notes that there were only two newspapers who featured the story about 4,000 US soldiers dead in Iraq on their front pages. Here’s a bit of her article at HuffPo:
It’s a sad day for America’s media when the tragic milestone of 4,000 soldiers’ deaths is reported and it appears that just two papers — yes two — place it across their front pages. After a search through today’s front pages, I found that The Rocky Mountain News in Denver and the Daily News in New York were the only papers to give their entire front pages to honoring the men and women killed in Iraq. The Los Angeles Times gave a top quarter of their front to a feature called “Stories Of The Fallen.” If I’ve missed a paper that featured the deaths across it’s entire front page then I welcome any corrections in the comment string of this post.
“One day people will look back at this moment in history and say, ‘Thank God there were courageous people willing to serve, because they laid the foundations for peace for generations to come,’ ” Bush said after a State Department briefing about long-term diplomacy efforts.
“I have vowed in the past, and I will vow so long as I’m president, to make sure that those lives were not lost in vain - that, in fact, there is an outcome that will merit the sacrifice,” Bush said.
Tagged as: media, iraq, fox news, richardson, us military casualties
Steven Reynolds is a regular blogger for the All Spin Zone
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