Media not happy over success in Iraq?

Evidently as things begin to go better for us in Iraq, the media trys to hide it, or at least ignore it, so that the war is not seen as a success for the Bush administration.

Media watchdog says as Iraq successes rise, networks' coverage falls
Chad Groening
OneNewsNow.com
December 10, 2007


A conservative media watchdog has conducted a study which documents that as conditions in Iraq have improved over the course of the last three months, coverage of the war on the big three networks has decreased.

The Media Research Center (MRC) says for more than three years, the major networks offered extensive coverage of the failures in Iraq and placed a skeptical spin on General David Petraeus' September 10 surge progress report. But Tim Graham, who serves as director of media analysis at the MRC, says the networks' zeal for reporting on Iraq has declined as the violence and casualties have declined in the war-torn country in recent months.

"We had a 178 network stories in September, which fell to 68 in November -- which simply means, yes, things are doing well," says Graham. He says at ABC, NBC, and CBS, apparently "good news is no news."

"The news media sort of had a relish for the bad news," he continues. "It really enjoyed reporting bad stories and sort of trying to destroy the whole idea that the war in Iraq was ever a good thing -- and when it starts to look like maybe it wasn't such a bad idea, then it suddenly just drops out."

Graham thinks if this trend continues, it will certainly affect the networks coverage during the upcoming presidential election year. "I expect the Iraq issue will pretty much drop out of the race, especially in the Democratic side," he predicts. "But I think perhaps the overconfidence the Democrats have had this year will evaporate a little -- and so they will go back to worrying about their real weakness on national security."

Graham suggests it would be a refreshing change of pace if the American news media would celebrate the successes of the American military -- just by reporting them.

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