Through the third week of June (just under half a year), the evening newscasts on NBC, ABC and CBS had combined for 181 weekday minutes of Iraq coverage. Most disturbing to some critics is the sharp cutback in network TV news coverage of the war during the past six months. There were no books about Iraq in Amazon's Top 100.) At the end of last week, it ranked 21,748 at. Her powerful and widely praised narrative of injury and recovery, Breathing the Fire, was published May 13. (Dozier did eventually find a publisher in Meredith Books of Des Moines, Iowa. Every chance we get, it seems like we turn away from Iraq." "But I had to admit that when we put Iraq on TV, people are changing the channel. The reason she almost didn't find a publisher is that "books on Iraq don't sell," Dozier says, recalling what editors told her when she was shopping the book and informed them that it would have a strong focus on Iraq. Kimberly Dozier, the Peabody Award-winning CBS News correspondent who was seriously wounded by a bomb blast in 2006 while covering the war, says she had a difficult time finding a publisher for a book about her injuries and road to recovery, even though her near-fatal attack in Baghdad was front-page news around the world. If Americans were avoiding only dramatized film and TV versions of the war like Over There and Stop-Loss, that would be one thing, analysts say.īut more troubling is the fact that the public's aversion has spread to news accounts and journalistic books about the war as well - with publishers and network executives taking note. Also, people don't think they can have much of an effect on things when it comes to this war, and that's most unfortunate." "Except for those with family or friends in the war, it just seems so remote, pointless and maybe endless, that they have tuned it out.
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