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If you're merely pointing out that an improvement in the overall level of violence should not wipe out our consideration of those still being killed, I am with you. Or if you are lamenting the very human psychological tendency to normalize our expectations to a recent baseline and then focus on deviations from that baseline, then I agree, that tendency can often cloud our ability to prioritize among events.
But I don't find anything particularly objectionable in the article you cite. It is in fact true that conditions in Iraq have improved markedly, and given the time horizon of the news cycle it makes sense for this to be the arc of the story. Beyond that, if you feel that this reporting somehow causes people to forget or lose sight of the fact that 122 people still died this month, than I feel like either you're seeing it elsewhere (i.e. in something you don't reference in the OP) or are projecting that view onto people who don't actually espouse it.
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