I agree that body counts and arbitrary "milestones" (e.g., over 100 killed; why is 100 an important number? Why isn't 1?) show the media's anti-Administration stance. More important, though, it's yet another in a general pattern of attempts to create out-of-context emotional responses as a method to influence public policy. It's a tactic of both the Left and the Right (consider the anti-abortion movement, with its gruesome pictures of dead fetuses), but the Left gets the most traction in the press.