By: John Keitel

The network and cable coverage of the Iraq War has all but disappeared. David Bauder, of MiamiHerald.com, writes;
Statistics clearly illustrate the diminished attention. For the first 10 weeks of the year, the war accounted for 3 percent of television, newspaper and Internet stories in the Project for Excellence in Journalisms survey of news coverage. During the same period in 2007, Iraq filled 23 percent of the news hole.

The difference is even more stark on cable news networks: 24 percent of the time spent on Iraq last year, just 1 percent this year.

The big reason for this precipitous drop in news coverage is that improvement and progress is occurring in Iraq. That is against the political mantra of the leftist media. They believe if they say it will fail enough, people will begin to believe in failure. Which is what they want anyway, failure or the belief it will happen. This being a political year failure of Iraq is the only way Iraq will be in the news. Successes in Iraq spells doom for the Democrat party line, get out now the war is lost.

The secret is that a large majority of Americans think the surge is working and that we will win in Iraq. The people are right success is occurring. Political progress is being made. And combat deaths are down below 30 a month. in contrast, 20 years ago yesterday Saddam Husein gased 3,600 Kurds to death in one day with an attempt at genocide.

Brauder also writes; Its possible to pinpoint the exact week that the switch turned off. The war averaged 30 minutes per week of coverage last year on the three network evening newscasts up until Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the U.S. forces, testified in September about the surges progress, according to news consultant Andrew Tyndall. In the last 15 weeks of the year, the broadcasts collectively spent four minutes per week on the war.

Great job Gen. Petraeus, you have taken the fight to the enemy, youve saved lives, youve built lives, and are putting lives back together. And at the same time sent the old media hiding. As long as they stay off of the subject they will do less harm. But could they actually help?

Yes, they could, but that would mean having patriotism, a uniting the likes of WWII. Calm down, this wont happen. Since the 1960s the media has been trained with the intent of instilling the most marxist ideals possible. This is antithetical to Freedom, so the ideals they have learned are for the purpose of destroying our Republic. Not supporting it.

They do not want our country to united they only seek to divide us into categories, labels to place upon us to oppress us. Martin Luther King taught to measure by character. People of character would ban together in a unified spirit to lift this country up. Not wish and work towards its demise.