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Spinning the SurgeIraq & the election
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The most conspicuous thing about the mainstream media’s election-year discussion of the Iraq War is the lack of one.
The numbers tell much of the story. Although it had been the main news story between January and May of 2007, totaling 20 percent of the news hole, that number declined to just 4 percent in the first three months of 2008—while the presidential campaign occupied 43 percent (Project for Excellence in Journalism, 3/26/08). Media decisions to treat the Iraq War as an afterthought have caused some correspondents to speak out publicly—most notably CBS correspondent Lara Logan, who said on Comedy Central’s Daily Show (6/17/08):
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