Comments on: Student Newspaper Drops Rising Death Toll from Front Page http://collegemediamatters.com/2009/09/01/student-newspaper-drops-rising-death-toll-from-front-page/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:04:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Student Paper Drops Iraq Military Death Toll from Front Page « Student Activism http://collegemediamatters.com/2009/09/01/student-newspaper-drops-rising-death-toll-from-front-page/#comment-1737 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:44:45 +0000 http://collegemediamatters.com/?p=2999#comment-1737 [...] September 4, 2009 in Campus Press, Campus Protests, Peace, Politics Since the fall of 2005 the Texas Tech Daily Toreador has been running the number of US war dead in Iraq on its front page every issue. With the start of the fall semester, though, they’re dropping the feature. [...]

]]> By: Bryan Murley http://collegemediamatters.com/2009/09/01/student-newspaper-drops-rising-death-toll-from-front-page/#comment-1701 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:38:28 +0000 http://collegemediamatters.com/?p=2999#comment-1701 How sad that the editors feel that they are serving some kind of purpose by removing this number from the front page. Too many Americans have bled and died and yet there is little acknowledgment in the media or the public unless a local boy is killed.

And why don’t they publish the death toll from Afghanistan, anyway? That was the war which had as its proximal cause the attack of Sept. 11.

I don’t find any justification for taking the death toll off the front page. None whatsoever.

Regardless of your political persuasion, these are men and women who give the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Rather than take the death toll off the front page, more papers should put it on the front page.

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