Media bias...
Take this Bob Woodruff incident for instance.
Two men are injured in the explosion of an IED in Iraq. It seems like the type of blurb that you find at the end on an article or hear at the end of a news broadcast but this time one of the men is Bob Woodruff and now the media is all over it. Stories about his injury, stories about him being evacuated to Germany and more stories about his return to the United States.
Why is there all this fuss?
It's like the press has just discovered that people get hurt and die in Iraq. All the press coverage this story has gotten disgusts me. I can't watch CNN or open a newpaper without hearing about it. People die every day over there and it doesn't receive a shred of the coverage that two men getting injured does. On average there are sixty-five US military personnel killed in Iraq every month. One hundred seventy-four troops are injured troops per month. How many more Iraqis are wounded and die every day? Not enough to warrant news coverage.
So will people ever get tired enough of the media's blatantly biased coverage and say enough is enough? And if they do will it even have an effect on the media conglomerates out there? I'm have to say that I think people will eventually get annoyed enough that the media will straighten up for a short period of time and then go right back to their old habits.
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