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Why couldn't the U.S. government control the news coming out of Iraq in 2003, such as the number of military and civilian casualties, along with the news of the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and other prisons?


A) There were too many journalists and news organizations from around the world reporting, along with too many American soldiers and Iraqi civilians posting what they were seeing and experiencing to weblogs.
B) In the beginning, the U.S. government was able to control all the news coming from Iraq, but as the war grew longer, the soldiers kept writing home letters about the front, which were given to news organizations to print or air.
C) The official sources no longer had a united stand, so the news coming from Washington was less and less consistently controlled.
D) The government in Washington was less interested in controlling the news as, in general, polls showed the public was not that interested in the war; thus the government didn't control the story because it was unimportant to them.
E) The United States government has been able to control all of the sources of news coming from Iraq.

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