America's Media—What They Are Writing and What They Left Out
by James Glaser
May 17, 2010

Pick up any paper or turn on any television news program, and you will read or hear about all sorts of things. Again this week Tiger Woods was big. Will he or won't he stay in the PGA? That oil leak in the Gulf is getting a lot of coverage. I can't figure out how they can call that gusher they have a leak. If you car has an oil leak, you see spots of oil where you park. There is a published video of this oil leak, and you can see that oil is coming out under a lot of force. The pipe it is coming out of is 21 inches in diameter, but they still call it a leak.

In politics everything seems to be about Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court, and the primary elections in Pennsylvania and Kentucky. Then we have the debt crisis in Europe, riots in Thailand, and the smoke coming out of that volcano in Iceland. Oh, and I almost forgot, South Korea fired on a North Korean ship.

Well, that pretty much covers the news this week. About the only thing left out was any coverage about the two wars we have going on in Iraq and Afghanistan. I think we have a couple hundred thousand troops involved, but according to our national media, not much is going on.

There was this though. American troops from Maryland, Colorado, Arkansas, Iowa, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee, and Massachusetts were killed in combat this past week. Actually, two from Texas were killed, and one all the way from Micronesia was killed. With that many troops being killed, you have to know many more were wounded, but the Pentagon will not release those numbers. On the other side, some of the Taliban in Afghanistan were killed along with innocent civilians, but as in Iraq, the Pentagon does not keep a body count of those we kill in Afghanistan.

So, we had a lot of news this week. So much that our media could not find the time or the column inches to cover our ongoing wars. Oh yeah, one other thing they missed. Congress is working on a appropriation bill to spend another $33 billion dollars ($33,000,000,000.00) to keep those war going for a few more months. I guess we won't read about that either.

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