Chicago Tribune
A Tribune public editor's office study found this year's number of Washington Post Iraq stories was down from the 161 articles on the front page in the same period of 2005. At the other end of the spectrum of front-page coverage, USA Today had 21 Page 1 articles on Iraq in the first five months of this year, 22 the year before and 42 in 2004. More stats: New York Times, 113 (2006), 143 (2005) and 216 (2004); Los Angeles Times, 127, 155 and 238; Chicago Tribune, 41, 74 and 138; and Boston Globe, 32, 65 and 143.
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