Just a quick comment. I flip between CNN and the Fox News Channel while getting my nightly fix of war coverage. Has anyone else noticed that on Fox, the coverage leads one to believe that victory is right around the corner? And that on CNN, the crew there acts as if they're covering 'Nam?
Just wondering.
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1 - Brian Flemming
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?
2 - Brian Flemming
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"
3 - san
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.
4 - Laurie K
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.