Senior Contributing Writer, American Journalism Review
Senior contributing writer with the American Journalism Review and Professor of Journalism at Indiana University
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Sherry Ricchiardi
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FROM Sherry Ricchiardi
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Iraq News and Your Evening News The conflict in Iraq is now the third longest war in America's history. For tens of thousands of US soldiers and countless Iraqis it's a matter of life and death. But America's newspapers and broadcasters have now reduced Iraq and Afghanistan to just 3% of the stories they are reporting. Is it too dangerous for Western reporters? Is it too expensive? Conversely, has a decreased level of violence made it a non-story? Has the taxpaying, patriotic American audience lost interest? Why do the presidential primaries get so much more attention?
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