Iraq war disappears as TV story

Filed under:Culture War,War on Terror — posted by Maverick on 3/17/2008 @ 4:36 pm

From MiamiHerald.com

It’s possible to pinpoint the exact week that the switch turned off. The war averaged 30 minutes per week of coverage last year on the three network evening newscasts up until Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the U.S. forces, testified in September about the surge’s progress, according to news consultant Andrew Tyndall. In the last 15 weeks of the year, the broadcasts collectively spent four minutes per week on the war.

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