CNN.com, MSNBC.com Highlight Bush’s “30,000 Dead” #; FOXNews.com Buries It

4:45pm:

> CNN.com headline: “Bush: 30,000 Iraqis dead in war.” First mention of the 30,000 figure: paragraph #1.

> MSNBC.com headline: “Bush: 30,000 Iraqis killed.” First mention of the 30,000 figure: paragraph #1.

> FOXNews.com headline: “Bush: Challenges Face Iraq.” First mention of the 30,000 figure: paragraph #36. It is followed by this quote from Bush: “We’ve lost about 2,140 of our own troops in Iraq,” he added.

> Update: 9:17pm An e-mailer says “So CNN and MSNBC latched on to one, negative statistic mentioned in the speech. What’s your point, that the two lower-rated networks are more anti-Bush than Fox? We already knew that…”

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