Thursday, March 13, 2008

Grim Milestone: Only 28% of the Public Aware of Grim Milestones

Ever since we went into Iraq, the media has obsessed on body counts, marking every grim milestone with a perverse glee.

Yet despite this obvious agenda, it appears the American public isn't as obsessed with the death toll as the media is. Of course, maybe they would know more, but ever since things turned around in Iraq, the media stopped reporting the good news.

Only 28 percent know that nearly 4,000 U.S. troops have been killed
Twenty-eight percent of the public is aware that nearly 4,000 U.S. personnel have died in Iraq over the past five years, while nearly half thinks the death tally is 3,000 or fewer and 23 percent think it is higher, according to an opinion survey released yesterday.

The survey, by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, found that public awareness of developments in the Iraq war has dropped precipitously since last summer, as the news media have paid less attention to the conflict. In earlier surveys, about half of those asked about the death tally responded correctly.

Related Pew surveys have found that the number of news stories devoted to the war has sharply declined this year, along with professed public interest. "Coverage of the war has been virtually absent," said Pew survey research director Scott Keeter, totaling about 1 percent of the news hole between Feb. 17 and 23.
Amazing they needed to take a poll to figure this out.

Certainly when the 4,000th fatality unfortunately comes, we'll be treated to a nonstop barrage of grim milestone stories.

Sure to infuriate the leftist media is the news that approval for the Iraq War is now at it's highest level in two years.

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