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WARBLOGGER WATCH
Saturday, April 12, 2003
Don't know how many words were deployed in sanctifying Michael Kelly, but the patriotic media spent damned few on the serviceman who perished along with Kelly. As of present, a Nexis search yields just 51 hits for "Wilbert Davis," the soldier believed to be driving the Humvee crashing into the canal, killing both, over the past 60 days. Of course, most of these citations came via casualty counts, burial notices, and photo captions. The Tampa Tribune - the paper based in Davis' native city - was one of the few to honor him properly.
The neighboring Orlando Sentinel ran a full 71 words announcing Mr. Davis' death. The headline to that item read, "TAMPA-BORN SOLDIER DIED IN CRASH ALONG WITH JOURNALIST."
The Washington Post, where Kelly's demands for war often appeared, ran a piece on Mr. Davis.
A search for "Michael Kelly," the pro-combat non-combatant, over those same 60 days returned 970 articles.
This correspondent found no mention of Davis' vs Kelly's salary.