Shhhh! Iraq is a failure. But don't tell the people... they might not vote Republican.
Number of front page articles about Iraq for the period Sept. 1 to Sept. 21 in major newspaper around the country:
The New York Times, 12
The Washington Post, 17
The Boston Globe, 0
The Charlotte Observer, 3
The Chicago Tribune, 5
The Columbus Dispatch, 4
The Hartford Courant, 0
The Houston Chronicle, 0
The Miami Herald, 6
The San Diego Union-Tribune, 0
The Seattle Times, 1
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 0
USA Today, 1
Hmmm... why the sudden loss of interest around election time?
Probably not a Republican conspiracy. The Boston Globe is owned by the New York Times. This is more of a reflection of the general loss of the sense of what constitutes a newspaper. We now have newspapers aping local television.
ReplyDeleteI hate to say this but I'd bet that editors assume that the public is more interested in the new NFL and Survivor seasons than Iraq.
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