Did Only Two Papers Feature 4,000 Iraq Deaths Across Their Front Pages?

And so you want to use this terrible milestone to serve our politics (I share yours, but I will not use this "milestone") You do not need to plaster 4000 dead soldiers all over the news to remind people that this war has been a disaster. And then what, wait around until the 5000th casualty. As one poster said, the 3999 was just as important as the 4000! Lets not look like we are using a milestone to further our good goal.

Greatt post. We seem to have forgotten the War.

Most of us are not touched by the deaths and thus they do not happen.

The War Economy will get us all.

No one cares, a few do, but political sexcapades sell much better. George Bush and the media have slowly and steadily shifted this country's focus - for the most part Americans will only care if something happens to their family or friends - the soldiers and the war only matter when the media thinks it will be profitable. It completely blows my mind that so much attention has been given to Spitzer and his replacement. Lets save all the moral outrage for Bush/Cheney.

I'm wondering how many times this author reported #3,993. Wasn't this person as important as #4000? Why in the world do people only focus on the round numbers? #1 was pretty important to.

Why doesn't HUfFFPOST print at the top of their Main Page, a daily American War Death Tally?

Ms. Zaleski,

U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq Reach 4,000 - roadsid bomb kills four GIs while insurgents mount heavy attack on Baghdad's Green Zone

The Seattle Times front page cover photo was very well done.

what is your point, I get my news from the Huff Po so what do I have to worry about?

Your search was incomplete. When I walked by the soon-to-open "Newseum" yesterday in DC, I stopped to look at the display cases featuring the front page from major newspapers in every state. Several featured the 4,000.

Ms. Zaleski, I do agree that the msm has repeatedly failed to report the horror of this war. However, I question the detail of your search in this instance. The Houston Chronicle, a very large daily that is a good, but not a very progressive paper (it appears each morning on my lawn next to my Obama '08 sign), did have the following headline March 24, 2008 at the TOP of the front page:

.....The acquiescence by the corporate media to the Orwellianism of the administration makes todays mainstream journalism look more and more like a collective Pravda. Katie couric giggles and does a story on spring fashion while the Iraq war is reduced to 3% of media coverage in the past month, according to Iraq war vet and expert ontthe matter paul rieckoff ( which was about 7% less than the amount of coverage on MSM dedicated to anna nicole smith's drug-addled corpse a year or so ago)....then the corporate media quickly segues into a sympathetic story about the woes of the multimillionaire investment class, then acts befuddled in explaining gasoline prices, willfully ignoring exxon/mobil's $40,000,000,000 in profits as have anything to do with it...on and on it goes....

Correction: The Dallas Morning News also had it as the top headline.

I Got a Better Number For You Kids 4000: Two

CONTROL THE NEWS AND CONTROL THE PEOPLE.

Why would the NY Post care? It's always been a rag even before Murdoch bought it. We can change this by not buying their publications or watching their channels. Since that's the only thing that gets a voice in this country, let your money do the talking.

If you're going to harp on something about this war -- talk about the actual cost -- not the human cost. The trillions spent has been ridiculous. However, when you consider the fact that over 3 million people have died from Heart Disease in the last 5 years or that over 200,000 have died in traffic accidents in the same time frame --- the figure of 4000 does not ring out so loudly...Sorry to be so callous but that's just the way I see it.

What I tried to say earlier but was cut off...

ok here is the reality of america. this is an imperialist and often a war mongering country. so few americans understand this reality about themselves.

Since the Iraq war began, we've had 4000 US fatalities out of approximately 650000 deployed soldiers. See...http://www.heritage.org/Research/Iraq/bg1954.cfm for more info. Out of 650000 deployments over those 5 years - .61% have died -- < 1%.

Maybe it's because people in this country understand that this a WAR and that in war there are CASUALTIES and that the number of casualties have been the most MINIMAL of ANY wars we have fought in the last 100 years. Tell me. What EXACTLY would be the point of posting the news on every front page in America? I have always understood that that was reserved for NEWS. What new news are you expecting to provide us? That we are in Iraq? That we are in Afghanistan? That there is a war? That soldiers are sacrificing their lives for an HONORABLE cause? Sorry. Most Americans already know this. And I wouldn't pay 50 cents for information I already know. Besides, your concern is NOT for a memorial to soldiers. It is your way of protesting the war. Most of us remember and give thanks to the troops EVERY SINGLE day. We don't wait until the MSM decides to "honor their memory" by using big bold numbers.