Without really noticing or making a big deal of it, I stopped watching TV a while ago. I have watched a grand total of zero minutes of TV coverage of the war. I get updates on the Web a couple times a day to see what the status is, maybe download a video clip from a news site now and then, and that's it as far as following that particular story.

I'd be curious to hear from TV watchers. By not watching TV, am I missing anything useful?

Just noticed a story about precisely this subject at the L.A. Times website:

Grasping a war told in real time:

Perhaps we will look back on this conflict's early days and conclude that the second Gulf War's first casualty was not truth, but understanding. Facts -- or at least events -- are everywhere. Persuasive accounts of their significance are in shorter supply.


Interesting closing observation by writer Tim Rutten: "Transfixed is different from informed"

Fox News claiming victory at hand? Really? You have to be kidding. How unlike them.

Brian, I leave CNN on at night sometimes -- though often with the sound off. From what I can tell, you aren't missing anything useful. I've been listening to the BBC World Service - Live News on Real Audio. Available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml, for anyone that is interested in an alternative news program.

I take issue with the LA Times. The first casualty, in their coverage, was the truth. This lefty is now an ex-subscriber -- they got so far out there that reading the Times is now like reading an al-Jazeera press release.