Notice Something Missing? MSM Seems To Collectively Forget Anniversary Of Iraq War

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by Glynnis MacNicol | 1:56 pm, March 19th, 2010

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Things I have gleaned from my Twitter feed today: It is the second anniversary of the death of Arthur C. Clarke. Things that are noticeably absent: Any mention that today is the 7th anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq.

It’s an absence made even more noteable when one considers the deluge of reflection that overtook Twitter this last Sept. 11. Today’s anniversary is not even a trending topic

But let’s forget Twitter for a second — though it’s a great measure of where the hive mind is focused — and turn to some more “reliable” news sources. There’s not a single op-ed in the New York Times today to mark the anniversary, or pontificate on where it all went wrong (update: there is a photo slideshow from this weekend’s Magazine). Nor the Wall St. Journal to tell us what went right. Nothing in the Washington Post either. Nor the LA Times. I can’t even find a single link on Drudge. Perhaps even more shocking is that I can’t find anything on Andrew Sullivan.

It’s almost as though where the media is concerned the Iraq War didn’t happen. Which obviously is not the case on either end. And while clearly there is plenty of real news to go around this week — health care, health care, Israel, Afghanistan, the Pope, health care — it’s not as if Iraq, or the decisions that led us there are not still immediately relevant to the country. We still have troops there and they just had an election. Anniversaries provide an easy, cosmetic opportunity to reflect and rehash and refocus, and hopefully shine a brighter, smarter light on decisions past, and their outcome, so that history doesn’t repeat itself. One might even consider it a responsibility. But apparently nothing is getting repeated today.

Video below of CNN’s coverage from that day. Side note: the book on which Matt Damon’s new movie ‘Green Zone’ (which I haven’t seen) is based, is a must-read for anyone interested in the immediate aftermath of the “shock and awe” campaign.

Update: I am not the only one to notice. Greg Mitchell writes about the phenomenon at his new Nation blog Media Fix. Also, Jason Linkins at HuffPo just posted this. Also this from The Takeaway/Newsweek. And NBC’s Richard Engel reflects. Hooray the Internet.

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shootfromthehip

Brave New Films did not forget. And they are still calling for the end of the Iraq war (they just posted a video today).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdnnRAf1Yio&feature=player_embedded

The mainstream media could learn a thing or two from Robert Greenwald.
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

I think the reason for the relative quiet is obvious. Three years ago, liberals were literally singing, “Who’ll be the last to die for a mistake?” (Bruce Springsteen’s failed attempt to turn a John Kerry speech into a rock song). Three years later, with their standard-bearer in office, they either have to place some of the blame on Obama, or admit that it wasn’t as much of a mistake as originally thought. After all, if it was a futile mistake in 2007, isn’t it more so in 2010?
Makes sense.

“The mainstream media could learn a thing or two from Robert Greenwald.”

Why would the MSM need to learn how to film Olivia Newton-John on roller skates?
MichelleF

God Bless our Troops and all they do to secure our security.
Jelperman

Why would the media want to remind everyone of their most shameful era? Thanks to the media’s role in stirring up war hysteria, over a million Iraqis and around 5000 Americans and allies are dead.
tigerprez

The Iraq War is totally irrelevant now to the mainstream media. It can’t hurt Bush anymore and it can’t help Obama. Why would they want to report on it?
same2u

“$747.3 Billion Spent And Not Any Safer”

Plus thousands of lives lost all built on lies. And the little punk Brett Baier kissed George Bush’s ass all the while likening him to Abraham Lincoln in an interview. And then some damn Klucker implies that Brett didn’t owe it to the American people to ask tough questions of him instead of propping him like a damn hero. And if that is not enough it, is A-okay for little Brett Baier to act like a PRICK to Obama because the health care has a significant impact on our economy.

Well F*** these people’s priorities!
digitaln3rd

Why would we celebrate the anniversary of a phony photo op used to drum up support for an illegal invasion? :/

The only way we should celebrate it is if the media and the rest of the Bush cronies that got us in to the mess are arrested, put on trial and finally held responsible for their crimes.
Voted

New York Times Sunday Magazine is actually devoting over a dozen pages this weekend. The story, “The Shrine Down The Hall” is online now @ http://nyti.ms/dp2xeb and a related video @ http://bit.ly/aZiJ66
Nachi

Great, proud anniversary. Insane “wars” brought by BushDrunk 1 & BushDrunk 2 – and all their supporters. The worst and most demeaning years in modern American history. Wounds that will remain raw and open for decades to come. Plunging us into our highest levels of national dishonor. Not much “pride” in being a “Murcuhn” these days. Disgusting really.
Anarcissie

AnonymousFinch is more or less correct. The major anti-war groups appear to have been infiltrated by Democrats, who were glad to use them as a stick to beat Bush with, but are now doing their best to deflect and disorganize them. Hence UFPJ, the biggest anti-war group, will have nothing to do with ANSWER, who put on a demonstration Saturday which everyone else studiously declined to notice. If there is to be an anti-war movement (dubious, people really like war) it will have to be reorganized from the ground up.

Incidentally, the term “hive mind” seems to have come from the abominable Jaron Lanier, an admirer of the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
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