As CNN's Howard Kurtz accurately pointed out on Sunday's "Reliable Sources," few media outlets seemed at all interested in giving much attention to the great news out of Iraq last week regarding September's sharp decline in casualties.
Robin Wright, should that decline in Iraq casualties have gotten more media attention?
ROBIN WRIGHT, THE WASHINGTON POST: Not necessarily. The fact is we're at the beginning of a trend -- and it's not even sure that it is a trend yet.
Do you think this story deserved more attention?
we don't know whether it is a trend about specifically the decline in the number of U.S. troops being killed in Iraq.
KURTZ: But let's say that the figures had shown that casualties were going up
STARR: Oh, I think inevitably it would have. I mean, that's certainly -- that, by any definition, is news.
Sadly, this is what makes today's reporters more like sports fans than real journalists.
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