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...photographer Christopher Morris traveled with a combat unit of the 3rd Infantry Division. Simon Robinson and photographer Robert Nickelsberg camped outside Basra with the 1st Marines Division. In the gulf, Meenakshi Ganguly watched bombers take off from the deck of the U.S.S. Constellation for runs at the Iraqi mainland. Brian Bennett, with the 332nd Expeditionary Wing, monitored troop movements from an air base south of the Iraqi border. Sally Donnelly was in Qatar to cover General Tommy Franks, while Terry McCarthy waited in Kuwait to join the second wave heading for Baghdad...
Over the years, China's televised newscasts have conspicuously avoided one thing: the news. In 2001, for instance, the attack on New York City's World Trade Center reached mainland airwaves a full day after the buildings had collapsed. But the second Gulf War is giving Chinese broadcast journalists a chance to redeem themselves. Two China Central Television (CCTV) channels are offering around-the-clock coverage, while others are showing large blocks of war news, mostly live and largely free of governmental interference. "We're washing a bad taste out of our mouths," says a CCTV producer proudly...
...unfiltered interpretation of statements from U.S. generals and even from President George W. Bush. The motivation? Same as in the rest of TV world: ratings. Amid fierce competition for viewers, channels are using the war to differentiate themselves. China's English-language channel, CCTV 9, which broadcasts to the mainland and abroad, has set its eyes on a larger market. "It's positioning itself as an alternative to Western and Arab media around the world," says John Terenzio, a former news executive for ABC and NBC who is advising the channel on its coverage...
...China Rolling Stones Concert [April 1, 4] The aging but legendary rockers are finally set to shake up the mainland with their 40 Licks tour, featuring songs from their latest compilation album. Though the Stones have periodically applied to perform in China since the 1970s, they finally got clearance earlier this year. But the band, scheduled to play first in Shanghai and then Beijing, has already run afoul of China's Ministry of Culture, which has banned four of its best-known numbers, including Brown Sugar and Let's Spend the Night Together. For concert details, visit rollingstones.com/news/pressreleases.php...
...passing on information such as which drugs worked best on the mainland, Chinese officials might have saved other researchers from weeks of agonizing trial and error. Dr. Ronald Low, microbiologist in chief at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, believes that earlier Chinese disclosure of case histories could have accelerated development of a treatment. Low says that since his hospital started administering the antiviral medicine ribavirin, patients have stopped dying. "So far, all the patients on this treatment are still alive," he says, "and most of them are showing improvement...