The Human Cost of War

An interesting observation from Byron York, the Washington Examiner's Chief Political Correspondant.

" So far this month, 38 American troops have been killed in Afghanistan. For all of 2009, the number is 220 -- more than any other single year and more than died in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 combined.

 

With casualties mounting, the debate over U.S. policy in Afghanistan is sharp and heated. The number of arrivals at Dover is increasing. But the journalists who once clamored to show the true human cost of war are nowhere to be found. "

I hate to use the term "liberal media bias" because, like most political rhetoric, it is far too broad to really mean anything at all. But think back to all the print media and television outlets that would constantly show tear-jerking images of countless caskets draped in U.S. flags of fallen soldiers in the Middle East. Compare the frequency of those images between 2003-2008 to the frequency which with we see them today. Considering the statistics York mentions above, it's an interesting change in the media's style of journalism.