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...last light bulb. Even as the other cities toppled--first Kirkuk, then Mosul--there were still people in Iraq who had nothing to do but fight and look for a chance to ambush a soldier with his guard down. From the comfort of their living rooms, Americans watched NBC broadcast a fire fight outside Baghdad so fierce that one wounded soldier was still firing from his stretcher, and the chaplain had to grab a rifle. Some of the biggest air strikes of the entire war came the night after Baghdad fell...
Their reports from Iran were broadcast back into the country through the Voice of America radio service, which Lyons said drew government criticism and eventually led to the pair’s dismissal from the country...
...Gulf War I may have been a war made for TV, but Gulf War II has been a war made by TV. Knowing this campaign would be broadcast by Arab media like al-Jazeera - likely to show it in the goriest, least flattering light - the Pentagon chose targets and strategies to reduce blowback in the Muslim world, even at some military risk. After U.S. troops entered Baghdad, the war continued to be waged through TV. George Bush and Tony Blair took to Iraq's commandeered airwaves, press secretary Ari Fleischer began a White House briefing by announcing exactly when...
...American soldier too." As they rushed her out to a nearby helicopter, Lynch squeezed the hand of an Army Ranger and said, "Don't let anyone leave me." All the while, planes outfitted with special communications gear circled overhead, allowing a video feed of the events to be broadcast to the military's top brass in Qatar, who were able to watch the rescue in real time...
...meanwhile, SARS is the only story other than the war in Iraq that has made it onto just about every news broadcast and front page. Even though nobody has died in the U.S. or even, with a single exception, got extremely sick, Americans are worried that this country could be the next major stop on SARS' international grand tour (see box), prompting President Bush to put SARS on the short list of quarantinable diseases last week...