<font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00FF00">Poll is based on the article below. </font>

JULY 22, 2003
Readers Want Press to Cover All U.S. Casualties
Article on Media and Iraq Draws Big Response

By Greg Mitchell

NEW YORK -- Updated at 12:15 p.m. Eastern Standard Time

A news analysis that I wrote last week, posted at E&P Online on Thursday, has drawn the heaviest e-mail response of any article from E&P in the nearly four years I have worked for the magazine.

The article charged the media with providing a misleading sense of the recent U.S. death toll in Iraq. The press routinely highlights "combat" deaths and downplays all deaths, including accidents, suicides, and other causes (which vastly outnumber the deaths from hostile fire).

This apparently struck a raw nerve, with several dozen e-mails arriving in our mailbox within two days, including tips on the deaths of two female soldiers under mysterious circumstances. And these weren't the usual media junkies or political activists, but an apparent cross-section of backgrounds and beliefs.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ed...ent_id=1938344

Hey this may be old fashioned but I do strongly believe that all news be reported, however uncomfortable it is. That said I get sick of the sensationalist bandwagon that poor (majority?) journalists accept as a reasonable standard.

I agree with wellard.