War takes up less time on Fox News
By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer Mon Jun 11, 9:52 AM ET
NEW YORK - On a winter day when bomb blasts at an Iraqi university killed dozens and the
United Nations' estimated that 34,000 civilians in Iraq had died in 2006, MSNBC spent nearly nine minutes on the stories during the 1 p.m. hour. A CNN correspondent in Iraq did a three-minute report about the bombings.
Neither story merited a mention on Fox News Channel that hour.
That wasn't unusual. Fox spent half as much time covering the Iraq war than MSNBC during the first three months of the year, and considerably less than CNN, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
The difference was more stark during daytime news hours than in prime-time opinion shows. The Iraq war occupied 20 percent of CNN's daytime news hole and 18 percent of MSNBC's. On Fox, the war was talked about only 6 percent of the time.
The MSM's "coverage" of Iraq is virutally all just updates about body counts and little else. To the AP and CNN just "reporting" how many died is sufficient.
Fox News doesn't air meaningless reports about body counts without any context. To the MSM, this is a crime.
If we had today's media on June 6, 1944, the only thing they would have told us is that thousands of Allied troops were dead or wounded.
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