Afghan War Just a Slice of U.S. Coverage

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Michael Holmes of CNN in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in April. A CNN executive said some Americans had “war fatigue.”


Afghan War Just a Slice of U.S. Coverage
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: December 19, 2010

As the Obama administration conducted an Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy review this month, the news media did too, and the coverage came peppered with question marks.

The same week that ABC News scheduled a series of segments titled “Afghanistan: Can We Win?,” Katie Couric of the “CBS Evening News” devoted six minutes to a special report, “Can This War Be Won?”

A recent headline atop New York magazine repeated a question asked by dozens of opinion writers this year — and last year, and the year before — “Why Are We in Afghanistan?”

The questions reflect the complex nature of the Afghan war, and of the news coverage.

The grueling war there, where a day rarely goes by without an allied casualty, is like a faint heartbeat, accounting for just 4 percent of the nation’s news coverage in major outlets through early December, according to a study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, an arm of the Pew Research Center.



unhappycamper comment: Our congresscritters are just pissing all over themselves to keep the occupations (and the MICC) going. And I haven't heard a peep from the M$M about the trillion dollar a year military budget.

[oldlib]

1. I suspect that

the US military treat the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as training grounds for their troops. Following basic training troops are sent to those areas for real fire exposure.