"The Rocky Mountain News in Denver and the Daily News in New York were the only papers to give their entire front pages to honoring the men and women killed in Iraq. The Los Angeles Times gave a top quarter of their front to a feature called "Stories Of The Fallen." [...] Let's take a look at just some of the major US papers that left the soldiers out of their main front page headlines. To give a small bit of credit where not much is due, I've updated that The Washington Post posted a small headline in its very bottom left corner while The New York Times had a mention in a story excerpt below the fold." - Zaleski, The Huffington Post
Tragic. Is it because American newspaper readers (those few who are left) no longer care about the war? Soldiers are still dying. The war (if you can even call it that) is still there. It's the job and the duty of journalists to present this information to the public. Make us care. Show us the truth.
Katharine Zaleski of The Huffington Post shows this "sad day" in journalism through copies of major newspapers:
"The major newspapers -- some cut above the folds -- are pasted below. No need for more words. The media's silence on Iraq is loud and clear below."
Look at them and demand more.
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