Wednesday, September 14, 2005

''Another Victim of Katrina: Media Coverage of Iraq''

"The monomaniacs in the media are at it again, focusing all their attention on a single story to the exclusion of all others. At least this time, the story the galloping herd has focused on is a mega-disaster and not Michael Jackson or Natalee Holloway or the Brad-Jen-Angelina triangle. But as monumental a story as Katrina is, why aren’t the American media capable of covering two disasters at the same time?

I’m talking, of course, about the other disaster facing our country, Iraq. You remember Iraq, don’t you? I wouldn’t blame you if it’s slipped your mind, because it has certainly fallen off the media radar screen since Katrina came ashore -- devastating the Gulf Coast and blowing the devastation in the Persian Gulf off the front pages. But that’s definitely where it belongs. Especially given how much there is on the Iraq beat for the media to be covering."-from Arianna Huffington on her blog.

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