Archive for the 'Iraq War' Category

It’s Because They’re Saving Room for Stories About Iran

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

From the New York Times:

According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television consultant who monitors the three network evening newscasts, coverage of Iraq has been “massively scaled back this year.” Almost halfway into 2008, the three newscasts have shown 181 weekday minutes of Iraq coverage, compared with 1,157 minutes for all of 2007. The […]

Clinging to My Martinis and My Constitution and My Antipathy Towards a Government That Doesn’t Represent Me

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

You want to talk about bitter? OK, let’s talk about bitter.

I’m bitter that the news most people watch and the news most people read chooses to report on ill-chosen words of one presidential candidate rather than the disastrous foreign policy views of another (Oh, really, John McCain, Sadr’s “influence has been on the wane for […]