PEJ News Coverage Index: May 6 - 11, 2007, GOP Worries About Iraq Fuel War Policy Coverage
On May 10, the lead story in the Washington Post reported on “a remarkably blunt White House meeting” in which Republican moderates warned President Bush that “his pursuit of the war in Iraq is risking the future of the Republican Party.”
The same message came through that day in the New York Times' headline: “At White House, President is Told that He Faces Defections on War.”
As it has on a number of weeks this year, the political debate over U.S. policy in Iraq generated more coverage than any other story last week, filling 14% of the overall newshole, according to PEJ's News Coverage Index from May 6-May 11. This time, however, the story was not the predictable and continuing squabbling of Democrats and Republicans over Congressional maneuvering.
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