The Friday before the election, Oct. 29, a report by researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore was published in The Lancet, the respected British medical journal, describing their estimate of "excess deaths" that had occurred in Iraq since the American invasion and occupation. Using epidemiological survey methods, the researchers had calculated 100,000 civilian deaths attributable to the war. This devastating report was criticized, dismissed out of hand and relegated to the back pages of the few media outlets that covered it.
The Baltimore City Paper examines how the media (mis)handled the story and concludes "Few reporters, apparently, understood what the study actually said" and goes on to interview the researchers at length, explain the study and answer the dismissive criticisms.
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