GOP Worries About Iraq Fuel War Policy Coverage

GOP WORRIES ABOUT IRAQ FUEL WAR POLICY COVERAGE
[SOURCE: Project for Excellence in Journalism, AUTHOR: Tom Rosenstiel, Paul Hitlin, and Mark Jurkowitz]
As it has on a number of weeks this year, the political debate over U.S. policy in Iraq generated more coverage than any other story last week, filling 14% of the overall newshole, according to PEJ’s News Coverage Index from May 6-May 11. This time, however, the story was not the predictable and continuing squabbling of Democrats and Republicans over Congressional maneuvering. It was Republicans challenging the President with their concerns that the war in Iraq would damage the party’s political fortunes for years to come. And much of the American news media treated the exchange at the White House as a breakthrough event.
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