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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket
Can we actually blame the media for Iraq? I don't think so. They may do crappy things like a death count, but Bush owns how badly Iraq is going. But we're not supposed to be focused on Iraq right now... we're supposed to be distracted by Mel Gibson, Lebannon and this new story today... but that, too, could be the media's fault...
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It is within the nature of the media to dwell on the negative. There is nothing news worthy about planes that don't crash. There is nothing exciting about our relationship with Japan. Most of the time, what's reported is what is going wrong.
Everything is not going wrong in Iraq. Where the media is focused - there it is not going well at all, to be honest. Baghdad is a mess. But look at the north. 200,000 Kurds were killed by Saddam, and that region is doing so well that they refer to themselves as Kurdistan and are even trying to promote tourism. Of the 14 provinces, 11 are doing quite well. Three are a mess.
The media will focus on what they find to be interesting at the time. They love dirty laundry. Mel Gibson was dirty laundry.