Proof the MSM diversion stories work..

[liberal N proud]

While we are hearing about Britney being in a mental ward and a Governors hooker the media conveniently forgot to mention that WE ARE STILL IN IRAQ!



Study: Public unaware of Iraq toll
Only 28 percent know that nearly 4,000 U.S. troops have been killed
By Karen DeYoung
The Washington Post
updated 12:01 a.m. ET, Thurs., March. 13, 2008
Twenty-eight percent of the public is aware that nearly 4,000 U.S. personnel have died in Iraq over the past five years, while nearly half thinks the death tally is 3,000 or fewer and 23 percent think it is higher, according to an opinion survey released yesterday.

The survey, by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, found that public awareness of developments in the Iraq war has dropped precipitously since last summer, as the news media have paid less attention to the conflict. In earlier surveys, about half of those asked about the death tally responded correctly.

Related Pew surveys have found that the number of news stories devoted to the war has sharply declined this year, along with professed public interest. "Coverage of the war has been virtually absent," said Pew survey research director Scott Keeter, totaling about 1 percent of the news hole between Feb. 17 and 23.

The Iraq-associated median for 2007, he said, was 15 percent of all news stories, with major spikes when President Bush announced a "surge" in forces in January of that year and when Gen. David H. Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Iraq, testified before Congress in September.

"We try not to make any causal statements about the relationship between the absence of news and what the public knows," Keeter said. "But there's certainly a correlation between the two. People are not seeing news about fatalities, and there isn't much in the news about the war, whether it be military action or even political discussion related to it."


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23602987/

[Perry Logan]

1. Under a Democratic President, we would be reminded of the deaths every five seconds.

[SoCalDem]

2. youbetcha.. and we would be reminded of the recession the democRAT president CAUSED

:grr:

[zbdent]

7. despite the fact that it already is well under way ...

but, of course, the Repukes and the media will start saying the recession started 1/21/2009 ...

[napi21]

3. Sorry folks but that tells me that most people are NOT listening

to ANY news! I hear the Iraq dead count every day, including how many THAT DAY. I think way too many are just interested in American Idol or who's been kicked off the island!

[liberal N proud]

5. Do you hear it from the talking heads?

Many of us do as you say hear about it every day. But too many in this country still only get their news from the talking heads on the box in their living room.
Americans are too lazy to go and find real news.

[napi21]

6. I listen most of the time to CNN & MSNBC. I know both of them

report on the Iraq desths every day, and mostly NOT what I call the talking heads. I also hear it on the hourly news on the radio everyday.

I can also tell you that my son, age 38, NEVER listens to any news other than what he hears from others at work. He in fact doesn't watch TV and doesn't get a newspaper either.

The days are GONE when it was a nightly ritual of having the news on while the family was eating dinner!!!

[malaise]

4. The M$M cartel and Bushco have a mutual agenda

Then they get together and enjoy Bush singing about the crimes of Bushco...and the fuckers laugh.

[Echo In Light]

8. Hand in {hidden} hand