What's happening in the middle east?

[glatt]

I don't know what you are trying to say. You are quoting news stories that have already been reported, and saying that they ought to be reported. If you are trying to say that they deserve more press, then that's probably true. I won't argue with you over that, but we have had a year's worth of news happen in the last two weeks. Something has to be cut.

In yesterday's presidential debate, the two presidential candidates didn't talk at all about Iraq, that I can remember anyway. It's not just the "liberal" press moving on to other issues.

Calling the press "liberal" is one of those things that has been repeated by the conservatives for so long, people are starting to believe it to be true without even thinking about it.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by glatt

Calling the press "liberal" is one of those things that has been repeated by the conservatives for so long, people are starting to believe it to be true without even thinking about it.

And people who don't want to draw attention to it are getting people to repeat that it is not a fact, for so long now and so often, that people are beginning to believe it.

A rather unbiased study of the issue. The only one I have seen to date done in an academic setting.

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/7726

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla...UCLA-6664.aspx

[classicman]

Originally Posted by glatt

If you are trying to say that they deserve more press, then that's probably true. I won't argue with you over that,

That is what I was saying. It deserves more coverage.

[tw]

Originally Posted by glatt

Calling the press "liberal" is one of those things that has been repeated by the conservatives for so long, people are starting to believe it to be true without even thinking about it.

Which is completely contrary to what research has noted for decades. The press are repeatedly found to be some of America’s most conservative (but not wacko so). The press also reports on change, on things that are new, and therefore "must be liberal" to those who know without first learning. “We don’t know those things so liberals must be reporting it”.

Meanwhile, more Americans are dying in Iraq then when George Jr proclaimed "Mission Accomplished". That is not new and therefore worthy of front page reporting. Also no political solution exists - still. Only way to end a civil war is with a political solution. But Americans cannot even admit it is a civil war; not a war against Al Qaeda. Therefore nothing new to report; nothing has changed.

Also little reported is that Afghanistan is so firmly in Taliban hands that even the White House started a complete reassessment of Afghanistan. It is so bad as to even get the George Jr administration attention. Marines have been saying this for over a year. Marines wanted out of Iraq long ago before Afghanistan got worse. Inaction by the George Jr administration means Afghanistan got even worse. More than 4 years ago, more than 50% of Afghanistan was in Taliban hands. Since the mental midget got us in a quagmire in Iraq, better is to ignore Afghanistan.

But none of this is as significant as what Wall Street events predict. This crash is only equaled by 1929 – and similar. History suggests massive job losses four years later. The $trillion wasted on "Mission Accomplished" is trivial by comparison.