Media, public ignore war in
Afghanistan, drone campaigns
Washington Free Beacon Staff
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The New York Times’ media blog found that public interest in the war in
Afghanistan is so low that it did not register as one of the biggest stories of
2012.
The Pew Research Center’s
weekly polling on the public’s interest in news stories showed such a low level
of interest that the overseas conflicts didn’t make the organization’s list of
the year’s top 15 stories.
Nor did the Afghan war come
up often when The Associated Press conducted its annual poll of editors and
news directors in the United States. The only overseas stories voted to be the
year’s top news stories involved Libya and Syria.
Yahoo’s list of the top
news stories of the year also omitted the war, and so did a separate list of
the top international news stories. Those lists were created by analyzing
millions of searches by Yahoo users.
It is hard to say if the
amount of interest is low because coverage of the war is scant or if the
coverage is scant because interest is low. Either way, the media has focused
very little attention on both the president’s use of drone strikes to kill
terrorists across the globe as well as the ongoing war in Afghanistan.
Not everyone has forgotten
about the troops in Afghanistan, however. Spirit of America’s “68,000 Remember” campaign, which is collecting photos to create a wall of
remembrance for those still serving. Photos can be uploaded to the group’s
Facebook page;
the photos submitted already can be viewed here.
Washington Free Beacon Staff, January 2, 2013 4:59 am
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