Question: How many troops have to die in a day before it's news?

[mudesi]

See, because if 2 die every day in Iraq for one month, that's 60 dead soldiers, and no mention of them at all on CNN. But if 30 die on the first day of the month, and then 30 die on the last day of the month, with no deaths in between, that's the same number of dead soldiers, and 2 five minute blurbs about them on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, as well as a possible mention on the crawl on the bottom of the screen.

FOUR THOUSAND TWELVE

[endarkenment]

1. 10+

My guess is that the bullshit media system's troop death reporting filter has been set to 10.

[gateley]

2. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding Iraq

hearings all week long. I'm not finding it on C-Span, and my question is WHY?

Remember Iraq? Hello?

And in response to your question, I don't think it matters. Nobody seems to care. When we start showing caskets coming into Delaware, when we start showing faces and names....maybe?

I feel your anger and disgust. :grr:

[Coexist]

3. its very sad.

[JayFredMuggs]

4. Agreed

[niyad]

5. cnn used to carry the casualty toll on the crawl. now they don't

[cliss]

6. I can tell you.

It's multiple numbers. When US troops die in a spectacular attack, such as a bombing, and 5 - 7 - up to 10 die in a fiery explosion. THAT's when the US public pays attention. That's what the Pentagon fears most: undue attention to the deaths. I also believe that they deliberately downplay the deaths when it happens. Like may 1 or 2 deaths, but the next day it was actually 8. that kind of thing.

It's pretty outrageous because over the long run, more US troops die in the average deaths or 3.1 per day (is that correct?)