Nei giorni della rivolta degli uomini scalzi, Information Guerrilla segnala che The Media Ignore Credible Poll Revealing 1.2 Million Violent Deaths In Iraq. Lo afferma MediaLens, organizzazione che lavora per andare a stanare le distorsioni della stampa, e aggiunge:

The point about the ORB [Opinion Research Business] study is that it provides strong supportive evidence for the findings of the earlier, far more detailed and rigorous 2006 Lancet study. The Lancet authors have been calling for exactly this kind of follow up study to help confirm or refute their findings. It seems clear that the Lancet figure of 655,000 deaths, although now a year out of date, was accurate.

For the media to ignore the ORB study is an authentic scandal. Doubtless the failure is in part rooted in simple ignorance of its significance. If so, this amounts to a form of criminal negligence in the face of vast war crimes. But, as discussed above, structural realities continue to apply – the media system is an integrated component of a system that benefits from the subordination of people and truth to profit and power.