Neal Boortz makes an interesting observation:

You might have thought with the 60th anniversary of D-Day coinciding with the news coverage of Ronald Reagan's passing, that the media had briefly set aside their Abu Ghraib obsession. Of course not. Examples are not hard to find, but here's just a few:

* The Seattle Times: "The picture of the six Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi, the most-reproduced image in the history of war photography, was evoked again by Tom Franklin's photograph of firemen raising a flag atop the rubble of New York's Twin Towers after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. "It said, 'Look, we're the same people who won that war, and we're going to survive this too,' " said Buell. "It crossed generations." Then came Abu Ghraib.

* USA Today: "I am alive today thanks to the Americans and the English," says Marcellin, a French Jew who spent three years hiding from the Nazis in the South of France. His gratitude has not faded since June 6, 1944, when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy to drive out the Germans. What about the war in Iraq? "America may be right, it may be wrong," he says. The abuse of prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison? "The French did the same thing in the war with Algeria."

* The LA Times: "In both Italy and France, Bush found himself on the defensive over the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad"

Neal also predicts that it won't be long until someone in the press says something like "Having suffered from the effects of Alzheimer's disease for the last decade, Reagan was unaware of the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib."