"We", as in you and I, may have heard tons about it- but most Americans? They don't read the papers or the New Yorker, and their TV news will mostly cover crime and critical news like the latest update on Anna Nicole. Most people probably don't even know what Gitmo stands for, couldn't pick Iraq out on a map, and have no idea what rights the Gitmo inmates may or may not have (nor would most of them care).
Most Americans know a lot more about American Idol stars than they do about Iraq, or the Iraq war, or any issues connected with it. The sexual Abu Ghraib pictures were memorable, but I bet if you polled people on the street, you'd find there was considerable confusion about who those men were, what country they were in, what country they were from, and why the pictures mattered.
Americans aren't interested in Gitmo or the detainees, so I don't think it really matters how many inches the MSM devoted to it. Inches only matter if they have an effect, right? If Americans were interested they'd obviously be able to read as much about it as you and I do, but they aren't. The Gitmo detainees are, for the most part, irrelevant to most people in this country, In fact, the whole Iraq war is pretty irrelevant, save for the families who've lost children, and who are affected right now, and the bills that will eventually come due and affect us all, but which we aren't thinking about right now. |
