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It becomes pretty obvious why comparisons of recent escalated violence in Iraq to the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam fall short. Here’s what the Press Secretary Tony Snow said to a reporter from CNN yesterday: “Well, your network has shown pictures of snipers hitting Americans, which was used as a propaganda tool.” Back when the networks were more respected than they are today, the free press could get away with something like this. So influential was the Mainstream Media in the days of Vietnam, Walter Cronkite could express the War as a failure, and then cause an American president to...

Rebuilding Iraq's media By Stephen King Director, BBC World Service Trust In the British-controlled southern region of Iraq there is a cautious welcome. Groups of children wave and sometimes adults give a thumbs-up sign. A youth standing between the carcasses of two rotting camels on the side of the main highway between Safwan and Basra stuck two fingers up. "They even know the one-finger salute now," commented our driver. Iraqis are sceptical about some of the channels set up by the coalition This was my first visit to Iraq - as part of a BBC team organised by the...

The War in Quotes Journalists who don't like the war--and like thinking even less--have a little trick they use to tell us how they really feel. by Alan Jacobs 04/14/2003 7:10:00 AM I HAVE BEEN REMARKABLY DILIGENT in keeping up with the news from the war in Iraq--some might say a little too diligent. I was the first one on my block to track the Command Post hour by hour, and I recall with a surge of pleasure the first time I got to a juicy story before Glenn Reynolds could link to it on Instapundit. But when I realized...