The media is recrafting is reporting on Iraq [again...]

Iraq, US forces capture more than 600 Sadr fighters

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070123/wl_afp/iraqshiitesadrarrest_070123074557

In a quick google search that for some time 'Iraqi troops' has seven times out of ten followed 'U.S. troops' in most headline reporting out of Iraq.

As part of the escalation effort, one of the 'essential' goals of this plan is to increase the maximum number of Iraqi military forces securing their own day to day security operations.

In comes the media, lock stock and two smoking barrels, right on cue, to prop up the headlines by swapping the two in a clear attempt to direct the reader's attention.

It plays to the weakness of the citizen who cannot be bothered with major details, and generally reads print media in the way that they've been spoonfed audio and television reporting, in extremely small portions, remembering what he or she reads first, with the rest becoming minor details.

This is very precise and very deliberate.

It's a shame that it's become so obvious that this is what is happening in media reporting.