Asia Times,
The American media continue to ignore the increasingly devastating air war being waged in Iraq against an ever more belligerent Iraqi resistance – and, as usual, Iraqi civilians continue to bear the largely unreported brunt of the bombing.
When the air war shows up at all in the US press, it is never as a campaign, but as scattered bare-bones reports of individual attacks on specific targets, almost invariably based on military
announcements. A typical example was reported by Reuters on December 4: “Two US Air Force F-16 jets dropped laser-guided bombs which, according to a military spokesperson, killed two 'insurgents' after they attacked an army patrol near Balad, 37 miles west of Baghdad.”
On the same day, Reuters reported that “a woman and two children” were “wounded when US forces conducted an air strike, bombing two houses in Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad”. And even this minimalist version of the American air war rarely makes it into large media outlets in the US.
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