4/29 This isn't even mentioned on the CNN front page, and the eight troops
dying is in the story's ninth paragraph.
CNN: "Elsewhere in Iraq, eight U.S. troops died in a car bombing
Thursday and two others were killed in separate incidents, according
to the U.S. military."
What you can do is compare how it's handled on other news sites.
\_ it was earlier this morning, when I first checked the news on
http://cnn.com (~8am PDT)
\_ Come to think of it, yesterday a front-page CNN article was
titled, "Iraqis believe war did more harm than good", and by
evening, it was, "Iraqis believe war did more harm than good,
but think it was worth it." What is going on over there, anyway?
\_ This is one of the major problems with the 24 hour news cycle
cnn runs on. If you're ever had headline news running in the
background while working on something, you'll notice the same
thing. Stories slip over the course of the day. This is why
newspapers won't die. --scotsman
\_ So why is it that http://washingtonpost.com and http://nytimes.com, which do
also maintain 24-hour news sites, do feature the eight U.S.
troops killed in car bomb story prominently on their web sites?
\_ "why newspapers won't die..."
\_ I'm saying that this news is not even half a day old,
and has not even made it to their print editions. Yet,
for some reason the news is covered differently by
them than at CNN in this particular instance.
In fact, the http://cnn.com reporting today is on F/A-18s
dropping bombs, and the coverage yesterday or the day before
that was on AC-130s killing > 100 Iraqis (mostly insurgents).
I've been noticing a trend of CNN not reporting deaths
as prominently, and more on the effectiveness of
U.S. military power.
It was way, way obvious today, because 8 U.S. troop deaths
from a single car bomb is a very rare event, and yet it
is not covered well on http://cnn.com today.
Also note that I am not saying that this is right or wrong,
but I am first trying to establish whether this is an
accurate description. |
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