Iraq War Coverage

Major Networks Putting Iraq On The Back Burner: Reporters

New York Times/Obsidian Wings | Posted 06.22.2008 | Media

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The New York Times has a piece today on the dwindling amount of time US news networks are spending on Iraq and Afghanistan: According to data compil...

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Jason Linkins

CNN's Yellin On Run-Up To War: Corporate Execs Pushed For Positive Coverage Of Bush

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

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[UPDATE: Yellin responds in an update, below.] CNN's congressional correspondent Jessica Yellin, appearing on last night's Anderson Cooper 360 as a p...

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Marshall McLuhan Was Wrong: The Media Is the Mess, Part One (I Think)

Larry Amoros | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media

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Larry Amoros

They say a picture's worth a thousand words. All we're getting is the thousand words. We get Wolf asking Anderson for his opinion on what Candy said to Richard about Katie's report on Fallujah.

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Richard Engel Named NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.18.2008 | Media

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NBC News' Senior Middle East Correspondent Richard Engel — most often seen reporting from war-torn Iraq but more than willing to go wherever bom...

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Katie Knows What You're Thinking

Harry Shearer | Posted 04.07.2008 | Media

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Harry Shearer

For someone who spends the vast majority of her day (and days) inside the cocoon of West 57th Street, it's amazing Katie Couric knows so much about what "people" think.

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No More Happy Iraqi Stories

Carlotta Cooper | Posted 03.29.2008 | Home

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Carlotta Cooper

My fiance is living on a small base a few kilometers from Nassiriya and I hadn't heard from him in a few days.

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Media Turns Its Back on Iraq

New York Times | Richard Perez-Pena | Posted 03.23.2008 | Politics

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The New York Times reports Monday that as the nation enters the sixth year of the Iraq War, media outlets are paying less attention to the war: Five ...

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Stop Gotcha Politics on Iraq

Anne-Marie Slaughter | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

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Anne-Marie Slaughter

The debate about Iraq is still far too much about who was right and who was wrong on the initial invasion and far too little about how to get out.

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Richard Engel's Emotional Return To The Palestine Hotel: "This Is Where My Colleagues Were Killed"

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.19.2008 | Media

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NBC News has posted a video online by Baghdad correspondent Richard Engel sharing some reflections of the last five years in Iraq on this anniversary of the commencement of the Iraq war.

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Iraq War Disappears As TV Story

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 03.17.2008 | Media

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NEW YORK — Remember the war in Iraq? The question isn't entirely facetious. The war has nearly vanished from TV screens over the past few month...

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Putting The Lie To Petraeus And Crocker

Michael Schwartz | Posted 09.12.2007 | Politics

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Michael Schwartz

I think that many of you share my need to read something that douses the stench of the last two days with some refreshing (but depressing) evidence about what is really going on in Iraq.

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