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Iraq in the News: Six Minutes Per Week (!)
by Jeff Bercovici
Jul 08, 2008
Jul 08, 2008
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 ...
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