Editorial: Iraq takes a backseat to state propaganda

There are seven days in a week and there were seven announced deaths in Iraq last week. Did the news media bother to impress that upon anyone?



Not at all.



Last Sunday, the US military would announce two deaths and Friday would find another two deaths announced.



This wasn't addressed. In fact, Iraq coverage was so poor last week that The New York Times decided they spent all those millions staffing in Baghdad just to get a paragraph out of the bureau that they could run in "World Briefs."



The Trade Minister was arrested and over 100 members of Parliament signed on to calling the Oil Minister before Parliament. But that's apparently not news.



Speaking of Parliament, Iraq's legislative body and Kuwait's legislative body exchanged insults last week and that didn't interest US media.



Romania pulled their soldiers out and Britain threatened to pull their Navy but worked out an agreement with Iraq at the last minute.

At one point last week, the VA sent their Chief officer of Patient Care Services, Dr. Madhulika Agarwal, to testify to Congress and she either had no idea what she was talking about (despite relying on a cheat sheet) or she was deliberately lying. The possibility that a contractor was getting payment for a job not completed or that a VA employee yet again didn't know what they were talking about wasn't of interest to the media.



What did you get instead? State propaganda over and over. Two nights worth on NBC but doled out every where over and over. And allegedly newspapers are worried about bleeding readers. Allegedly worried.