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Is the war in Iraq fading from view?

Hello again, I'm Mormon Alleney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International, a daily look of the issues. Americans care about most.

The conflict in Iraq is now

the third longest war in America's history. For tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers and countless

Iraqis, it's a matter of life and death. But America's newspapers and broadcasters have now

reduced Iraq and Afghanistan to just 3% of the stories they are reporting.

On to the point, is it too dangerous?

Is it too expensive?

Conversely, has a decreased level of violence made it a non-story.

As the American audience lost interest, why did the presidential primaries get so much more attention?

On reporter's notebook later on, artificial arms controlled only by brainwaves.

First, here's the news.

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D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Hello again. We're on Alney, back with To the Point. Iraq and Afghanistan now account for just

3% of the coverage in America's print and broadcast news, down from 25% just last September.

On To the Point, we'll look at the cost, the danger, and the attention span of American news consumers,

is the third longest war in American history becoming a non-story. On reporter's notebook, the brains of monkeys have adopted

artificial arms as their own. Will the same technology work for paralyzed people? First,

this news update. Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan was on the defensive today,

replying to attacks on his new book, which claims that the Bush administration deceived the American people about the war in Iraq.

On NBC's Today's show, he was asked if there was deception while he was at the White House, why didn't he speak up then?

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