Steve Feinstein looks at bias by omission.

Via Betsy Newmark, who writes:

I was watching a discussion on C-Span last night of four veterans who had come back from serving in Iraq and they were unanimous in their condemnation of how the press has covered the situation there since the embedded reporters left in 2003. I'd like to see one of those countless symposia where journalists sit around thumb-sucking and talking about their awesome selves conducted in front of an audience of veterans from Iraq. Let them defend their coverage to the people that they've supposedly been covering.

Meanwhile, in a very much related article, Victor Davis Hanson writes:

Third, our affluent society is at a complete disconnect with hard physical work and appreciation of how tenuous life was for 2,500 years of civilization. Those in our media circus who deliver our truth can't weld, fix a car, shoot a gun, or do much of anything other than run around looking for scoops about how incompetent things are done daily in Iraq under the most trying of circumstances. Somehow we have convinced ourselves that our technologies and wealth give us a pass on the old obstacles of time and space — as if Iraq 7,000 miles away is no more distant than Washington is from New York. Perhaps soldiers on patrol who go for 20 hours without sleep with 70 pounds on their back are merely like journalists pulling an all-nighter to file a story. Perhaps the next scandal will be the absence of high-definition television in Iraq — and who plotted to keep flat screens out of Baghdad.

The result of this juvenile boredom with good news and success? Few stop to reflect how different a Pakistan is as a neutral rather than as the embryo of the Taliban, or a Libya without a nuclear-weapons program, or a Lebanon with Syrians in it, or an Iraq without Saddam and Afghanistan without Mullah Omar. That someone — mostly soldiers in the field and diplomats under the most trying of circumstances — accomplished all that is either unknown or forgotten as we ready ourselves for the next scandal.

Precisely because we are winning this war and have changed the contour of the Middle East, we expect even more — and ever more quickly, without cost in lives or treasure. So rather than stopping to praise and commemorate those who gave us our success, we can only rush ahead to destroy those who do not give us even more.

Update: No wonder the MSM talks down the economy--just look how their stocks have performed this year, and over the course of the decade since 9/11.