Going under-reported

Jim Gerahty at TKS noted the other day some significant happenings in the WOT and wonders aloud what the Administration has to do to catch a break in the whole “message thing”:

Why is the Bush administration losing the message game? Well, for starters, almost nobody has blogged about this, and almost nobody has covered this. (I realize that there are several spellings of his name and several aliases, but even searching for variations, there just hasn't been much talk about this guy.)

Does the President have to put this guy's head on a stick on the White House lawn to get people to notice our victories in the war on terror?

Or would Rummy have to unveil the corpse at his next press conference to get anybody to notice this?

"See this? This is a dead al-Qaeda. This is our job in this building, and we're doing a pretty darn good job at it."

"Mr. Secretary, isn't killing this al-Qaeda just a way of distracting the American people from the shocking and unexpected news that Wes Clark thinks you should resign?"

Furthermore, he goes on to point out additional good news and it’s coverage: Oh, by the way, senior Taliban commander killed in a raid by Afghan police in Zabul province, five militants killed by U.S. and Afghan military forces in Kunar province, eight militants captured in southern Khandahar.

The headline in the New York Times today? "Afghan Battles See Higher Toll for Civilians."

As to the not-small point he mentions above, I will gladly step up and report it while acknowledging that we could do more to inform the blogosphere’s tail about these things more regularly!