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Things have gotten a little "quiet" lately in Iraq, network news bureaus have decided.They have scaled back their news reporting operations. They have frustrated the remaining reporters by dead-ending their bylines and refusing the run their stories. It seems these news organizations have all decided, almost in unison, that "mum" is the word, as far as Iraq goes.
This wasn't the case when each day brought news of another spectacular suicide bombing, or another brash offensive by Iranian supported death-squads, or another groundless accusation of improper conduct by the US military. In fact, there didn't seem to be enough room on "page one" or enough "lead stories" to get the news out adequately.
But now, with Iranian influence on the wane, with American casualties at their lowest levels of the war, in the wake of a successful military surge undertaken by a courageous president despite the chorus of cries from the halls of congress and the press that the cause was lost and the only thing left to do was withdraw ... now, with the Al Qaeda types and other foreign fighers and the Bathist insurgents beaten into inconsequentiality, with the vaunted "civil war" and "sectarian violence" all but invisible ... now, with a US-trained, home-grown Iraqi security force becoming more effective and legitimate in the eyes of its citizens with each passing month, with the Iraqi public anticipating a new round of democratic elections ... and now -- WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT!!!! -- with the US presidential elections looming here at home, our unbiased, objective and unimpeachably ethical press, have decided that there's really no story to tell.
It's too expensive, they say, to maintain a news bureau in "such a dangerous place."
Say WHAT? How could this possibly be? Wasn't it these same news bureaus who were trumpeting the naked profiteering and price-gouging by Blackwater and Halliburton for maintaining THEIR operations in Iraq. Oh, I'm sorry. Excuse ME!!!! THAT was when their employees were being fired upon, beheaded, burned and hung from the bridges entering Sadir City.
As reported in the New York Times (notice I forgo my usual epithet for the gray lady here):
Edits: 06/24/08 06/25/08Follow Ups:
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