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Jul 08 2008 12:00am EDT

Iraq in the News: Six Minutes Per Week (!)

There's an old saying about the news business: "If it bleeds, it leads." When it comes to the Iraq War, that couldn't be truer.

Since violence in Iraq began to diminish, coverage of the U.S. campaign there on the Big Three evening newscasts has fallen off dramatically -- from an average of 30 minutes a week in 2007 to a mere six minutes per week this year, according to an analysis by network news monitor Andrew Tyndall. That's by far the least coverage the war has received since it began in 2003.

There's some good news: Tyndall concludes the war has largely been knocked off the air not by "fluff" but by coverage of the economy and, especially, the presidential election.

Still: Lara Logan was right.

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