Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit has been writing (and linking) a lot about bias in the post-war coverage in Iraq. What Glenn and other critics seem to downplay is that media coverage tends to be negative about everything. Bias may be to blame, but it's not the sort of bias critics suspect. What makes it worse is that news tends to focus on specific events, i.e., what happened yesterday. Incremental improvements rarely get the coverage that isolated disasters get. So an attack on an American soldier always will get more play than a friendly gesture or a new school opening. That, regrettably, is just the news biz.

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