Possible Shift In Iraq Strategy

**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

These guys cover all bases, do not they? Ya gotta love watching these guys work!

WASHINGTON Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Military progress and a political impasse in Iraq make a different direction for U.S. strategy "entirely possible," the Senate's Republican leader said Sunday.

Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, is to update Congress and President George Bush in September. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on "Fox News Sunday" he thinks "it's entirely possible that the president will lay out a strategy that takes us into a different place" regarding troop deployment.

He said he didn't want to presume what Bush might recommend after the military briefing.

Commenting on recent reports of GOP members seemingly distancing themselves from the president's strategy, McConnell said, "I think a lot of our members would be surprised if there was not some level of draw-down over the next coming months."

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Oh, Fox News is covering the war again? Cool. They report on the war less than any media outlet. Laughing

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"I think a lot of our members would be surprised if there was not some level of draw-down over the next coming months."

That's a safe assumption. The field commanders already said that. The question is when will it start.

Coming months? What a dumbass statement.

**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

They only cover the stuff that can be spun into good news or a success.

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Fox News was the news outlet that reported the least on events in Iraq.

U.S. media curtail Iraq war coverage.

By Jim Wolf

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. media reporting of the war in Iraq fell sharply in the second quarter of 2007, largely due to a drop in coverage of the Washington-based policy debate, a study released Monday said.

Taken together, the war's three major story lines -- the U.S. policy debate, events in Iraq and their impact on the U.S. homefront -- slipped roughly a third, to 15 percent of an index of total news coverage, down from 22 percent in the first three months of the year.

The study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism examined 18,010 stories that appeared between April 1 and June 29. Its "News Coverage Index" encompasses 48 outlets, including newspapers, radio, online, cable and network television.

The project is a research group studying and evaluating press performance. It describes itself as nonpartisan, nonideological and nonpolitical. The index is designed as an audit of a broad cross-section of U.S. news media.

The 2008 presidential campaign -- with its crowded field for the Democratic and Republican party nominations -- emerged as the top story in U.S. media in the second quarter, overtaking the Iraq policy debate, the biggest thread of the three Iraq-related storylines, the survey found.

Attention to the war dropped in all five media sectors surveyed. Network evening news, the sector that gave the war the greatest share of attention in the first quarter, scaled back more than 40 percent, from 33 percent in the first quarter to 19 percent in the second, the study showed.

On cable television, another leader in first-quarter coverage, the slide was nearly as great, from 23 percent of news reported to 14 percent -- a drop of 39 percent, the project said.

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**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

Since they are the conservs news source I would expect them to keep the Iraq stuff on the down low. This will give the conserv pundits the hook of a biased liberal media. I would trust the Daily Show for reporting real news over FOX.

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Fox is more interested in tabloid news. They are a hollywood news outlet.

**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

Sensationalism--look at the NY Post another one of Murdoch's holdings.

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When they aren't reporting on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton they have a shallow news outlet.

**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

And they are considerecd one of the top news networks when polls are taken, that should tell you just how ignorant the American people can be.