The media is the best at making things disappear, especially when said story is not to their advantage. David Blaine has nothing over the media. This time last year, Iraq was 24% of the news on the three major nightly news networks (ABC, NBC, and CBS). After General Petraeus’ report to Congress this last fall, the coverage of Iraq has vanished to 1%. Now, put this into perspective: 24% of a 25 minute show, five minutes of the 30 is for commercials (though it’s probably more than that), is six minutes. One percent of 25 minutes is one-fourth of a minute. I kid you not. Do the math yourself if you do not believe me. You may say that the reason Iraq is not on the news nearly as often is because it has been replaced by stories of the Presidential election and economy. However, it is possible to pinpoint the exact week that the drastic change occurred. The report was put out by David Bauder of the Associate Press this week. He wrote “It’s possible to pinpoint the exact week that the switch turned off. The war averaged 30 minutes per week of coverage last year on the three network evening newscasts up until Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the U.S. forces, testified in September about the surge’s progress, according to news consultant Andrew Tyndall. In the last 15 weeks of the year, the broadcasts collectively spent four minutes per week on the war.” It is amazing to me how the media can claim the situation in Iraq to be so horrible (which I knew they were lying in the first place since I had the true story from my father and uncle who were both there), yet when the situation is significantly better, the media refuses to report on it. What hypocrisy. Someone needs to teach the Main Stream Media something about honesty and morality.
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