Listening Post - Iraq's burgeoning media - 29 May 09

Salah Khadr remembers how the global media used to treat the anniversary of the war in Iraq and how now, just six years on, it barely made news.

It seems the Western news media have stopped covering the Iraq story. The story has fallen off many an editors news agenda.

But the Iraqi media are still on it. Since the fall of Saddam Hussein there has been a boom in the number of newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations.

But with nearly all Iraqs print media funded by political or religious groups more media does not necessarily equate to better information.

And all kinds of journalists are still in grave danger just for doing their job.

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