Media Coverage of Iraq

Iraq Media Blackout at 2 Minutes Per Week

Max and the Marginalized | Posted 06.27.2008 | Media

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Our song about the Iraq media blackout is short, but once you get past the second chorus you will have spent more time listening to it than two of the major networks spent discussing the war this week.

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Lessons Not Learned: The Media Continues to be MIA on the Truth about Iraq War

Bennet Kelley | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media

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Sadly, the McClellan revelations and the Phase II report reveal that, despite their public penance, much of the media would rather ignore this whole matter of the lead up to war.

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Take a Long Hard Look at the Children of Iraq

Terrance Heath | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

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Ed. Note: The images below may disturb you. They should. They disturb me too. But that doesn't necessarily mean we shouldn't look at them. Sometimes ...

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Another Scream Unheard, Another Corpse Unseen, Another Day of News

John Eskow | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

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We're becoming stupider and stupider about the war in direct proportion to the programming we receive from the mainstream media.

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Bearing Witness: Reuters Presents Five Years Of War Coverage

Reuters | Posted 03.19.2008 | Media

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On March 20, 2003, US and British forces invaded Iraq in what they said was a mission to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. 21 days later, the ...

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Iraq: Five Years and Fading

Jon Soltz | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics

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Maybe this five-year date will jog the media out of its Iraq-fatigue, and force them to confront what is happening, and report on it.

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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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Bruce Springsteen, Iraq and Me

Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

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The Boss and I go way back. Way, way back. But now we have ended up in the same place: on Iraq and on the page. Bruce wrote the brief preface for my new book on Iraq and the media.

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Pentagon And The Media Fall In Love Again

NY Times | Tom Shanker | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics

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The anguished relationship between the military and the news media appears to be on the mend as battlefield successes from the troop increase in Iraq ...

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The Next Graphic Novel You Have to Read: Shooting War

Jessica Wakeman | Posted 11.04.2007 | Media

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As much a statement about the television media than a statement about the war, I'd say Shooting War is dystopian but its tough-in-cheek commentary often mirrors reality closely.

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