GOOD NEWS IS NO NEWS (via Bryan Francoeur):

The War Endures, but Where’s the Media? (RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA, 3/24/08, NY Times)

Media attention on Iraq began to wane after the first months of fighting, but as recently as the middle of last year, it was still the most-covered topic. Since then, Iraq coverage by major American news sources has plummeted, to about one-fifth of what it was last summer, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

The drop in coverage parallels — and may be explained by — a decline in public interest. Surveys by the Pew Research Center show that more than 50 percent of Americans said they followed events in Iraq “very closely” in the months just before and after the war began, but that slid to an average of 40 percent in 2006, and has been running below 30 percent since last fall.

Let's all put our thinking hats on and try to solve the great mystery of why the press lost interest right around then?

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 25, 2008 12:43 PM