The Lack of Network Coverage of Either War

Democracy Now! Just ran a piece about the lack of coverage being provided by the major networks of either the war in Iraq or the war in Afghanistan.

Everywhere you turn there are "support the troops" reminders. Yet this administration has solicited the cooperation of ABC, CBS, and NBC to keep the war out the public eye. They are successfully employing the old trick that if you don't see it it doesn't exist. It is imperative that we make sure that the public is made to understand that the war is still going on and that we are still losing American citizens unnecessarily everyday. The whole idea of keeping the public uninformed is to ensure they are not aware of the human tragedy that this regime has heaped on us and the Iraqi citizens.

Here is what Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! had to say -

The New York Times reports the major TV networks have drastically cut back on their coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during their weeknight newscasts. So far this year, the three evening network newscasts have shown a total of 181 weekday minutes of Iraq coverage. That’s about two minutes of Iraq coverage per network per week. Just forty-six minutes have been spent by the three networks covering the war in Afghanistan.