Frustrated by the public’s disconnect, CBS’ Allen Pizzey turns to blogging about Iraq.

Has the main stream media finally taken a long hard look in the mirror? Pizzey has a soul searching point here. America and the press seem to care more about 12 dead American pets than 12 tortured bodies dumped on the streets of Iraq. When I read that, my conscience jumped…he’s right. As well, we Americans spend 9 BILLION dollars a year just to feed our pets, that doesn’t even talk about care, medical….etc. Imagine if the American public send 9 BILLION dollars for food, medicine and education to the children of Africa. And we call ourselves a Christian nation.

“We the media gave the Bush administration a free ride for this war,” he said. “We did not question sufficiently the statements made by politicians. I’m as guilty as anybody else. We climbed on board, and that’s not what we should do.”

  ”What is depressingly clear is that what seems important here is far removed from what viewers in the U.S. seem to be concerned about,” he wrote, adding: “How 12 dead animals in a country the size of the U.S. rates with the sliding scale of mayhem here is what I’m finding hard to gauge. When only 12 human bodies are found on any given morning in Baghdad with marks of the kind of torture the ASPCA would quite rightly have a pet owner in court for, it is judged as ‘progress’ for the security plan.”