Where's have the numbers gone?...

[RxOnco]

After hearing something on the radio yesterday, it made me wonder about something.
During the Bush administration, we were force-fed a constant barage of "daily K.I.A." numbers from Iraq and A-stan. It seemed each nightly news broadcast would either begin or end with "Two more American soldiers were killed outside Baghdad today. That brings the total number killed since the beginning of the war to..."
Well, we've either stopped losing soldiers on either front, or the media has somehow managed to stop reporting the numbers now that B.O. is in charge.
Coincidence?

[deagle]

maybe there just haven't been that many KIA's. what did you want more or something ??

i'd also want to know where our taxdollars are TRULY going to...

[RxOnco]

...what did you want more or something...

Of course not. I've got a little brother who's a Sgt. in the Army serving just north of Baghdad. I understand that the numbers have gone down. But it seemed there was a collective effort by the MSM to let everyone know when there was a K.I.A. each and every time. It just doesn't seem that way anymore.
Like I said...this is just the way it appears to me.

[Invisigoth]

It's Obama. He told all the news outlets to not report KIA numbers anymore otherwise his fascist stasi-forces would chop heads.

He doesn't need the public distracted now that he has usurped the good-doer Bush and is leading the U.S. into a new Arbeiter- und Bauernstaat under his totalitarian fascist-socialist communistic regime.

[Lokos]

It's still reported, but it doesn't make the news.

Blame the fact that the public has become inured to 'GI killed by IED south of Baghdad'.

L.

[Euroamerican]

I don't see the "today's body count in Iraq" feature being run during the ending credits of the nightly news or George Step-on-all-of-us'es Sunday Morning anymore.

It's because they don't have the Bush Administration to beat over the head with this anymore.

[Bro Jangles]

It's still reported, but it doesn't make the news.

Blame the fact that the public has become inured to 'GI killed by IED south of Baghdad'.

L.
i think thats the case, also, i noticed this even before President Obama took office.

[Mr Gently Benevolent]

This point has been raised in the past, cryptome.org has lists of K.I.A, reporting of the fallen took a dive in the run up to the US elections and was further displaced by economic news. All the lefty and anti-war websites still chatter about K.I.A and post current lists.

[Bia]

Obama lifted the ban of returned coffin images and left that option to each individual family.

He's not hiding anything... in fact those daily KIA stats stopped long before Obama even won a primary....

Rxono.... you're grasping it seems.

[RxOnco]

I'm not grasping at anything Bia. I was simply saying that, from my perspective, the reporting from the MSM seemed to drop substantially once Obama took office. Do I think that would be because of some White House directive? Of course not. Do I think the MSM used those statistics as a concerted effort to push an anti-war agenda? Of course I do. I don't have any numbers to back me up...simply what I see...or don't see...on the nightly news. I could be wrong. Maybe it's just the economy. MSM doesn't usually have the ability to handle two issues at once.

[PeterRJG]

I'm not grasping at anything Bia. I was simply saying that, from my perspective, the reporting from the MSM seemed to drop substantially once Obama took office. Do I think that would be because of some White House directive? Of course not. Do I think the MSM used those statistics as a concerted effort to push an anti-war agenda? Of course I do. I don't have any numbers to back me up...simply what I see...or don't see...on the nightly news. I could be wrong. Maybe it's just the economy. MSM doesn't usually have the ability to handle two issues at once.

How does Obama coming to power correlate with your perceived diminished reporting of Iraq and A-stan casualties? Isn't the press in the US free and open? Does the executive branch of the US Govt. control journalism? No to both, right?

I agree with the muffin ass - you're grasping.

[RxOnco]

...Isn't the press in the US free and open? Does the executive branch of the US Govt. control journalism? No to both, right?

Do you live in a cave? B.O. has been on the cover of Time magazine something like 12 or 13 times...this year. Of course the press is free. Unbiased? Well, that's a completely different question.

[seraosha]

What kind of dog the Obama's get is more important than any KIA count, get with the program RxOnco.
Koolaid's over there, man.

[deagle]

After hearing something on the radio yesterday, it made me wonder about something.
During the Bush administration, we were force-fed a constant barage of "daily K.I.A." numbers from Iraq and A-stan. It seemed each nightly news broadcast would either begin or end with "Two more American soldiers were killed outside Baghdad today. That brings the total number killed since the beginning of the war to..."
Well, we've either stopped losing soldiers on either front, or the media has somehow managed to stop reporting the numbers now that B.O. is in charge.
Coincidence?

here :

More Than 60 Killed in Two Attacks in Iraq

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=155950

are you happy to hear more death in military operations now ?!

just hope they were OPFOR instead of servicemen/women.

[seraosha]

Your use of OPFOR is incorrect. And it's a shame about those poor folks killed by terrorist scumbags.

But that didn't address the personal observation that US forces deaths are seemingly being under reported since President Obama has been elected.

[tennesseedave]

I've noticed this as well. Yes, casualties have decreased significantly, but the MSM coverage of US KIA is nowhere near as widespread at it was under GWB.

[Dilla2k]

Yea, at least the last year of Bush's presidency they really didn't report K.I.A.s like they used to. I do believe they were rubbing it in his face and with Obama most people feel its not his war, he's just inheriting it and has to make the best of it so no use saying he dropped the ball like he started the thing.