[Peace-discuss] Much coverage in US?

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Yeah, that's the AP spin.  Here's an assessment - with which I don't quite 
agree  - from a guy who's written well on political media for a while.  --CGE]


	On The Seventh Anniversary of the War On Iraq: Spotty Coverage,
	A Few Protests, and A Desire to "Move On" To Make It All Disappear
	By Danny Schechter
	Sunday, March 21, 2010

American media loves anniversaries of major events. They become ideal "news 
pegs" to do follow-up stories. You would think that they would have pulled out 
the stops for the seventh anniversary of the US war on Iraq, a war that was 
described by the Pentagon in its first days as a "cake walk" and designed as a 
quick intervention modeled after the in-out combat of Operation Desert Storm 
ending Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

Not only didn't it work out that way, but the news commitment faded and in the 
process, as one would expect, so did public attention. The networks went from 
'all the war all the time,' to withdrawing its troops long before the military 
did...

http://www.zcommunications.org/on-the-seventh-anniversary-of-the-war-on-iraq-
spotty-coverage-a-few-protests-and-a-desire-to-move-on-to-make-it-all-
disappear-by-danny-schechter

rlangenh at illinois.edu wrote:
> "Moderate ??????

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