Coverage of Casualties/Lohan & Spears/Governor/Attorney General: Pathetic Tabloid Journalism

Six, count them.

Six brave U.S. soldiers paid the ultimate price during the last three days, yet the Journal gave no coverage to their sacrifice.

None!

The J did, however, manage to print large articles about Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears each of the last two days. Truly, the J is trying to compete with the National Enquirer.

Nothing about our dead soldiers, but today’s J found room for a half page article, 14 paragraphs about the use of CATS as solace for terminal patients in RHODE ISLAND!

Is this valuable information for New Mexico citizens? Why this travesty?

Nothing could be clearer. Yesterday, the J painted a rosy future scenario of the Iraq war (see below). It was a large page one, above the fold article.

Today’s J gives one sentence to the near record breaking, MASSIVE SLAUGHTER of 88 Iraqis, over 200 casualties, proving the futility of the catastrophe in Iraq – giving the lie to a successful U.S. “new strategy,” so, of course the J ignored it. How self-serving.

No mention of our war dead. How sad.

In the last two days, the J gave 7 paragraphs to the Attorney General story while giving 24 paragraphs to Lohan and 20 to Spears. How trite.

The Associated Press, the J’s main information source, yesterday, revealed damning documents showing that Gonzales, the nation’s top law enforcement official, perjured himself before the Senate (again) and is refusing to prosecute the law, but the J does not even mention the story.

How propagandistic.