The Pew Research Center runs the Project for Excellence in Journalism which examines the press in a statistical and scientific way.What they found about coverage of the Iraq War surprises no one who has been closely following that conflict in the newspapers and on the cable nets - that as the situation has improved, press coverage has dropped to next to nothing:Through the first 10 months of the year, the picture of Iraq that Americans received from the news media was, in considerable measure, a grim one. Roughly half of the reporting has consisted of accounts of daily violence. And stories that explicitly assessed the direction of the war have tended toward pessimism, according to a new study of press coverage of events on the ground in Iraq from January through October of 2007. In what Defense Department statistics show to be the deadliest year so far for U.S. forces in Iraq, journalists have responded to the challenge of covering the continuing violence by keeping many of the...(Read Full Post)