IF TODAY'S MEDIA HAD COVERED THE D-DAY INVASION

Listening to the gloomy news from Iraq, I can't help but wonder how today's news media might have covered D-day. I can just imagine the story:

"More than 8,000 Allied servicemen were wounded, 3,000 of them fatally, during an assault on Normandy beaches yesterday.

Despite those heavy casualties, almost all of France remains under Nazi occupation.

The supreme Allied commander, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, claimed that everything had gone according to plan, but a number of retired military officers suggested that the invasion is in grave danger of failing."

He goes on to say:

The frenzy reminds me of the way local TV newscasts cover major American cities: "If it bleeds, it leads."

In general, the news is a catalog of horrors — child abuse, murder, celebrity rapes and other transgressions.

No one bothers to announce: Oh, and by the way, millions of people went to work yesterday, ate lunch, came home, watched TV and went to sleep.

That's not considered news, and rightly so when covering L.A. or New York.

But the fact that such normality is returning to Iraq is news.

Good story...read it all here.