War Press Coverage

[Tmy]

This press coverage is kinda freaking me out. Reporters imbedded with military brigades, running around Baghdad, low quality digital camera coverage, the constant newscaster cluelessness, everyone trying to out scoop and speculate. Its quite a show.

It kind of reminds me of that Starship Troopers movie. It was in the future and the Earth soilders were fighting aliens. The reportes would be in teh middle of battle reporting as everyone around them was being brutally killed.

[patnray]

I know what you mean. I was watching a report from Kuwait and the reporter said something like "You can't see the airfield, it's behind this building to my left." And the camera panned to the left so we could NOT SEE the airfield! All night long it was reporters with no news asking each other to speculate about what was happening.

Then I saw a report about how many millions of barrels of oil Saudi Arabi has in reserve and they showed film of a forklift moving around a pallet full of 55 gallon drums. Like the oil is actually stored in drums!

By the way, there are many great parodies in Starship Troopers...

[Jedi Knight]

Originally posted by Tmy
This press coverage is kinda freaking me out. Reporters imbedded with military brigades, running around Baghdad, low quality digital camera coverage, the constant newscaster cluelessness, everyone trying to out scoop and speculate. Its quite a show.

It kind of reminds me of that Starship Troopers movie. It was in the future and the Earth soilders were fighting aliens. The reportes would be in teh middle of battle reporting as everyone around them was being brutally killed.

It is freedom.

JK

[Wile E. Coyote]

I have to agree. After watching a few hours of this "coverage" this morning, I was left wishing I had my time back.

They know pretty much nothing, and are quick to speculate. This speculation, whether accurate or not, always ends up becoming someone's fact.

Also, different news sources report conflicting stories. "It was a SCUD" vs. "It couldn't have been a SCUD."

I will turn it on every 12 hours or so to see if they have anything new and concrete.

[Smalso]

I think all the networks are afraid something important will happen and they will be scooped by the others so everyone wastes time trying to think of something interesting to say. I turned on the teevee at noon hoping to see the NCAA tournament first round games and there was Rather. CBS switched the NCAA coverage over to ESPN, though, during the day, but will take them back tonight; prime time, y'know. Can you say "RATINGS?"

[renata]

Last night, less than an hour after the annoucement that US was bombing Baghdad, CBS was showing Survivor, Fox was showing American Idol. The only network news channel I saw staying on Iraq was NBC.