Well, this is a new one. In an October 11 story , the Washington Post is saying that one of the biggest reasons that the Old Media in the west isn't covering Iraq much these days is because they are facing tough financial times at home. I guess it couldn't be because we are now winning the war and they've lost their favorite doom-and-gloom story line, could it? The Post even quotes Alissa J. Rubin, The New York Times Iraq bureau chief, that there is "no clear narrative" over there anymore. Once again, this can easily be interpreted to mean that no clear losing narrative has left the media's attention wandering. Even worse Rubin almost seems to admit that they can't handle a "complex" story suddenly. "It remains important and it remains interesting," said Alissa J. Rubin, the New York Times' acting bureau chief in Baghdad. "But what's in front of us now is almost a static situation. There's not a clear narrative line. The stories are more complex." And they say that Sarah Palin can’t understand foreign policy! The Post reports that the number of western journalists in Iraq is at an all time low since the U.S. liberated Iraq from the brutal Saddam Hussein regime. Embedded journalists, for instance, stood at 219 in September of 2007 but are only at 39 today. The article also discusses the increasingly nuanced and detailed political reality in Iraq. As violence has given way to building the new Iraqi government, the stories have bec ...
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Well, this is a new one. In an October 11 story , the Washington Post is saying that one of the biggest reasons that the Old Media in the west isn't covering Iraq much these days is because they are facing tough financial times at home. I guess it couldn't be because we are now winning the war and they've lost their favorite doom-and-gloom story line, could it? The Post even quotes Alissa J. Rubin, The New York Times Iraq bureau chief, that there is "no clear narrative" over there anymore. Once again, this can easily be interpreted to mean that no clear losing narrative has left the media's attention wandering. Even worse Rubin almost seems to admit that they can't handle a "complex" story suddenly. "It remains important and it remains interesting," said Alissa J. Rubin, the New York Times' acting bureau chief in Baghdad. "But what's in front of us now is almost a static situation. There's not a clear narrative line. The stories are more complex." And they say that Sarah Palin can’t understand foreign policy! The Post reports that the number of western journalists in Iraq is at an all time low since the U.S. liberated Iraq from the brutal Saddam Hussein regime. Embedded journalists, for instance, stood at 219 in September of 2007 but are only at 39 today. The article also discusses the increasingly nuanced and detailed political reality in Iraq. As violence has given way to building the new Iraqi government, the stories have bec ...