Iraq - The Failure of the Press

"Opinion about Iraq splits along political lines. Republicans maintain that the going is tough but we are making real progress. Most Democrats feel that we are wading deeper into quicksand. The public understandably wants an objective source of information about Iraq. That should be the American press, but it isn’t."
OpEdNews

Well according to this reading the paper would not have made that much a difference. Keep the x-box, at least their entertained.