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Originally Posted by Charlatan
It isn't a bias it is better seen as an "angle".
They could cover every single incident that occurs in Iraq and around the world but what would that do but inure people to the slaughter.
In this case, the story has legs. Not only is it someone getting injured but it is a journalist, someone who is supposed to be "neutral". It is a hook that makes the story interesting and allows them to tell a fresh story. Watch the coverage. How many times during this story do you also recieve information about the number of other deaths in Iraq?
New hook let's journalists tell an old story.
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Something I hadn't considered so I was incorrect to call it a bias. I did review the print media stories I could find on the web and caught a few satories on it about CNN and MSNBC yesterday evening and in about half of the cases the casualties were mentioned as more then a footnote.
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