With Success of Surge, NY Times’ Iraq War Coverage Drops to All-Time Low
- Kevin Mooney - CNSNews.com
- Oct 21, 2008
(CNSNews.com) – As the U.S. troop surge in Iraq has succeeded, leading to a dramatic decline in the number of U.S. casualties in that country, The New York Times’s coverage of the Iraq war also has declined, falling to an all-time low in the last two months, according to a CNSNews.com analysis of stories retrieved on the Nexis database.
At The Washington Post, coverage of the war has been significantly lower this year than in previous years.
In the months leading up to the 2004 and 2006 elections, when U.S. casualties were running higher in Iraq, coverage of the Iraq war in both The New York Times and The Washington Post was greater than it has been in the months leading up to the 2008 election, when U.S. casualties have been low.
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