The Myth of Iraq "Fatigue"

Eric Boehlert of Media Matters has an excellent article up explaining how it's not the public that's ignoring the war, it is the media who has abandoned the coverage because it chose to, not because the public grew tired of hearing about it.

For the week of January 28-February 3, 13 percent of respondents to a Pew Research Center for the People & the Press survey said Iraq was the most important story of the week, making it the week's third most-selected topic. What percentage of the total news coverage did the Iraq story actually represent that week? Two percent.
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For instance, during the week of March 3-9 , the primary season grabbed 52 percent of the news coverage, compared with a minuscule 1 percent set aside for Iraq.

FYI: On cable TV for that same week of March 3-9, the political primaries accounted for a mind-numbing 80 percent of all the news coverage, compared with basically 0 percent set aside for Iraq.

Since when does the media show anything the public wants it to show, anyway? Really, I can't remember.

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