During the height of the Iraq war, the U.S. media paid close attention to troop deaths and fatalities, often making casualties among American soldiers leading stories in newspapers and on the airwaves. As ThinkProgress previously noted, the American press has essentially withdrawn from covering the war in Afghanistan, with the Pew Center finding that the media only devoted four percent of its coverage to the war during 2010.
Yet America remains a nation at war, and it’s important for Americans to understand the cost of its longest war in history, in Afghanistan. As ThinkProgress previously reported, the FY2011 cost of the Afghan war is $113 billion, approximately 40,000 times the cost of NPR’s federal grant money that Republicans have sought to defund and enough money to fund the employment of 1.9 million firefighters for a year.
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didn't Obama run on the promise to withdrawal troops? and aren't we now involved in yet another "conflict" in another foreign country???
1:44 dum dum, Obama ran on winding down in Iraq while taking the fight where it needed to be focused, Afghanistan.
How can the media, in any manner whatsoever, cover the Afghan war without making obama look like an incompetent and lying second, no, THIRD rate politician. What to do? Don't cover it, don't talk about the casualities, don't discuss the costs. AND as the next election gets closer, the less said, the better. When Bush was President, the killed and wounded were lead stories in every nightly newscast. Roadside bombs!! Quagmire!! Insurgent resurgency! Fiscal emergency! Now, if one reads the newspaper or watches CBS, ABC, or NBC, one could almost think that the war is over. And we won. But, of course, there's NO "media bias"....oh no, none of THAT.
thot this peacemonger was gonna bring our troops home.
You guys scream about msm, when in fact this is the same old media. Economic downturn/housing bust followed by health care debates, the 2010 campaign, and now Libya have all overshadowed the Afghan. war simply because these outlets report what they think most people want to watch, not necessarily what is the most important information. And to all of you screaming about bias, it seems to me George Bush received a pretty big pass up until his 4th year in office. The major news outlets suck period. They fail to truly go after the wrongdoers on either side of the political spectrum.
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