Name: Anonymous 2005-11-30 8:51
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,177122,00.html
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1357878
Does anyone give a shit anymore?
I haven't really been through any media wars except Iraq, so is this new- or is Iraq the first war that's falling second-page?
I'm talking in terms of a general concern about how it's going, not a patriotic rush every 2 and a half years when they first get the vote or they knock down a statue. It seems pretty ridiculous to expect us to care about a war we haven't seen being fought, for a cause which we won't benefit from. This isn't saving the world, after all, it's fighting the ideas of a country's own inhabitants, there's no real way to "win," unlike Vietnam.
So I'm asking, when is it OK to stop making it a frontpage story? There's better things to worry about, after all, and learning about new abductees and getting updated stats on how many Americans were blown up in a single month is going to lose its draw eventually. Actually, I think it happened a few years back.
I mean: will newspapers put Iraq headlines at a cost loss in the future? Or will the war soon be declared won, and the dying soldiers and abducted carpenters just not receive notices?
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1357878
Does anyone give a shit anymore?
I haven't really been through any media wars except Iraq, so is this new- or is Iraq the first war that's falling second-page?
I'm talking in terms of a general concern about how it's going, not a patriotic rush every 2 and a half years when they first get the vote or they knock down a statue. It seems pretty ridiculous to expect us to care about a war we haven't seen being fought, for a cause which we won't benefit from. This isn't saving the world, after all, it's fighting the ideas of a country's own inhabitants, there's no real way to "win," unlike Vietnam.
So I'm asking, when is it OK to stop making it a frontpage story? There's better things to worry about, after all, and learning about new abductees and getting updated stats on how many Americans were blown up in a single month is going to lose its draw eventually. Actually, I think it happened a few years back.
I mean: will newspapers put Iraq headlines at a cost loss in the future? Or will the war soon be declared won, and the dying soldiers and abducted carpenters just not receive notices?