Reporters Say Networks Put Wars on Back Burner By BRIAN STELTER Published: June 23, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/business/media/23logan.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1214215734-ELm0HfvTdc0QhBZuYdeYkw ...According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television consultant who monitors the three network evening newscasts, coverage of Iraq has been “massively scaled back this year.” Almost halfway into 2008, the three newscasts have shown 181 weekday minutes of Iraq coverage, compared with 1,157 minutes for all of 2007. The “CBS Evening News” has devoted the fewest minutes to Iraq, 51, versus 55 minutes on ABC’s “World News” and 74 minutes on “NBC Nightly News.” (The average evening newscast is 22 minutes long.) CBS News no longer stations a single full-time correspondent in Iraq, where some 150,000 United States troops are deployed. The US Media giants: enablers and embedded fools during the run up to the war; now pretending that the war does not even exist as the nation prepares to vote on the future of the country. I trust there is a circle in Hell reserved for them.