Lack of Negative Coverage to Blame

From the Politico I read this gem:

The Democratic base’s negative view of the war also has lessened of late.

This summer, CBS News found that 57 percent of Democrats thought the
war was going “very badly.”

Today, the number has fallen by 12 points, to 45 percent.

The changing views probably have little to do with Congress, said Stephen Biddle, a senior fellow for defense policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.

“You have also had the near absence of the war coverage in the last months, and since the coverage is generally negative, the less coverage, the less negative communications that reaches people’s living rooms.”

Biddle's analysis seems to imply that absence of media coverage is the only reason negative stories aren't being reported from Iraq. It doesn't seem to occur to him that maybe there are less negative things to report.

via Glen Reynolds

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 13, 2007