Why no attention to the 16 troops killed in Iraq but all news about Michael Phelps?

Question

Michael Phelps front page news and the deaths of American Troops on page 12. Why?

Answer 1

Because... Do American's really care about the troops? They really only care about how much they are spending at the gas pump, but are too ignorant to elect people to enact and place a renewable cheap self relient energy source.

Answer 2

because all we have been hearing for the last few year is so many troops day each day. I'm sick of hearing about it and I seen my friends put in the ground because of it. its about time the US has something to watch the is going good for us and is making a few people smile about something we are doing

Answer 3

Because the media treats the war like its just a commonality now.  They report how many were killed and where and move on.  Its really sad because whenever I hear that its like you stop and think, that is 16 families that have lost a loved one, 16 sons or daughters, fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, cousins, friends...the list goes on.  It is so very sad how they don't focus on the tears of the people that have lost these loved ones but the tears of Michael Phelps mom who has been shedding so many tears because she is proud of her son.  Thank God for these troops and what they have given to serve our country.  Thank God for their sacrifice.  

Answer 4

Because what Michael Phelps did has never been done before and may never be done again.  Unfortunately, people die in Iraq every day.  Also, Americans, in general, like to believe that we are invincible - Phelps' accomplishment supports that.  Troops dying in a war that many of us don't believe in, well, doesn't - it reminds us that we, as a nation, are not as perfect as we'd like to believe.

Answer 5

It just shows you how screwed our priorities are.  We( America ) care more about some d**n Olympics and One persons achievements than those who are in harms way fighting for the safety of our lives and others in a foreign country.

We'd rather dedicate 5 pages of news in the paper or 20 minutes of airtime to sports rather than acknowledge the lives of REAL AMERICANS on the front lines who might have lost a limb in  a roadside bomb, or maybe saved some poor child from enemy fire.

I feel your pain.

U.S. Army Vet

Brave Rifles

Answer 6

The media is already constantly stressing about the war, what the presidential candidates have to say about it, what Mr. President George Bush has to say about it, what former presidential candidates like John Kerry have to say about it, families in shambles after losing a loved one, etc. There are several different stories to the war the fact that 16 troops have died in Iraq is only a piece of the very large picture about the war. Even if the papers don't directly state that 16 troops have fallen, the grim results of the war are obvious when you hear about the protests and what the presidential candidates say.

The sad thing is the war is getting old and wearing on everyone's  nerves, seeing a front-page headline everyday about the war would just make me stop ordering the paper. I care about the war but would also like to hear about the rest of the world, LIKE Michael Phelps and his record setting accomplishment of 8 medals.

Answer 7

Good news is nice  

Answer 8

Well, besides the fact that I believe our government does this purposely to side track us, keep us kind of 'out of the know' if you will, I think people need to hear the good, not the bad. It's sad, but people are most likely going to buy the paper with Michael Phelps on the front page, as compared to the number who would buy ANOTHER paper with MORE deaths on the front page. I think we are becoming a little bit immune to the tragedies going on among our troops. It gets pushed to the back of the american mind where we don't have to think about it, don't have to KNOW about it, unless we want to. And why would we want to? There's nothing we can do. We didn't send them there, and can't bring them home. I think people are feeling so helpless anymore, ya know? I think that's the best way to describe it. It's selfish, and heartless, in reality, but... I think it's our way of coping. If all we heard about was how many people were dying every day for something we know nothing about, I think the world would begin to crumble.  

Answer 9

d**n liberal media. Wait, never mind,

Answer 10

I guess it's so that it makes news interesting because they're sick of listening to the war. I mean for all the civilians that don't have family in the war because they don't have the same affect then if it was someone that had someone in the war.

I'm sorry for the families of the 16 soldiers that passed away trying to keep the Iraqis out of our backyard.

Answer 11

Because once again Americans are repeating their actions as they did about Vietnam, only those with loved ones in harms way are concerned, the rest care about their own lives, but today it is the price of gasoline.

It is nice to see Phelps win, but will he be remebered longer then the falledn troops? and besides, the parties don't want the public to be remiinded of our problems, too close to election (once again the Vietnam syndprome).

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Answer 12

Maybe because, for once, good news trumps bad.