Media Musings
While I'm musing randomly, I am sort of confused about how to react to the actual real live shooting war. (I am very clear about the theoritical war.) I suppose I could hope it goes "well" so we get it over with. Of course "well" really means Dubya and his ilk get their way. But maybe that way fewer people will die.

On the other hand, maybe if it goes "not well" we'd knock it off or at least be less likely to do it again. Or would we just take longer and kill more people, because Dubya and The Boys are going to get their way one way or the other. (Don't give me guff about calling them "The Boys." You know perfectly well that Condi Rice is one of The Boys.)_

And then there is that whole TV coverage thing. It seems that the lousier the war goes, the less we "see" of it. When the networks thought we were into a week long war in which we would kick the crap out of the bad guys it was all war all the time. Every damn commercial was an opportunity to see Dan Rather's somber countenance with that really bad haircut or Peter Jennings' excessively enthusiastic interviews with folks who have foreign accents.

Suddenly after about the third day it turned out the the Iraqui's fight back. So war coverage cut way back. Oh, you say that is just on the major networks? Well that's true. The cable "news" networks still have all talking heads all the time, but they had that for months before the war actually started.

I actually heard radio idiots talking about how terrible it is to upset viewers by giving them some notion of what war is like. Don't want to upset Aunt Margaret who rabidly supports Our President Right or Wrong. God forbid she have some idea of what she is talking about.