Missing white women and small town murder mysteries

juan cole ponders an age-old problem... can our media walk and chew gum at the same time...?

Frank Rich, one of our most perceptive intellectuals, points to the odd downplaying of Iraq news what with the advent of the Israel-Lebanon crisis. But Rich is being a little unfair. If they tried to cover two important issues like Iraq and Israel-Lebanon, the television news producers would ask, how could they fit in the missing white women and the small town murder mysteries?

or are the media just playing into the administration's hands by allowing themselves to fall prey to yet another distraction - albeit a very serious one - that keeps our focus away from the world-class disaster that is iraq...?

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