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A Canard Exposed: “Papers Don’t Print Good News Because Only Bad News Sells.” There’s an often-repeated contention that the reason the mainstream media fails to report the good news from Iraq is that only bad news sells. Just today I heard this repeated by a radio host. This is a canard.
On the front page of today’s LA TIMES, for example, the lead story is “Blast Kills 22 at U.S. Base.” However, the front page also has room for “Real Estate Hunters Go Old School,” and “School Yuletide Observances Shift Into Neutral.”
There’s plenty of space, day after day, to report all the good things that our troops are accomplishing in Iraq.
