The media is always trying to walk away from the Iraq war

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Iraq News Gets Short Shrift As A Weary U.S. Tunes Out

By James Rainey, Los Times
in Nation, World » National News
http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=5e362923-8254-4c3d-a1b4-13d853edff6e

6/4/2006 -- News of the bombing that felled a CBS news crew washed over Baghdad's tight-knit media corps like a tempest this week — evoking waves of anxiety, sadness, resolve and more than a little dismay.

American television journalists covering Iraq confronted the difficult irony that it took the deaths of a cameraman and soundman and critical injuries to correspondent Kimberly Dozier to help push the story of Iraq back to the forefront of the nightly news back home.

The amount of time devoted to Iraq on the three television networks' weeknight newscasts has dropped by nearly 60 percent from 2003 to the first four months of 2006, according to the independent Tyndall Report tracking service.

Even before Monday's attack in a relatively placid section of Baghdad, some network television correspondents had reached the unsettling conclusion that, even as they were risking their lives in the war zone, audiences and producers in America had grown weary of much of the coverage from Iraq.

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[Montauk6]

1. After all, we've GOTTA FIND HOFFA!

And them there ho-mo-sekshals is still tryin' to git hitched!

(Obvious :sarcasm:)

[NNN0LHI]

2. And the "Mesicans" are invading our country n/t

[muntrv]

3. Hey, we gotta know about Brangelina's baby!

Otherwise, we have no lives.:sarcasm:

[opihimoimoi]

4. And those poor white girls who disappear every night must be high lighted

OJ WHO?, NFL, NASCAR, NBA, PGA, ABA, LPGA, SPGA, Reruns, Damnnnnnnn

All distractions from our pressing probs...World Peace not in place yet....