Two years ago tonight

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"NEW YORK - Despite weeks of talk about an attack that would cause "shock and awe" with its firepower, the war with Iraq unfolded on live television Thursday with sporadic bursts of action followed by longer stretches of quiet."

"Starting with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's 11 a.m. EST briefing, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox set aside regular programming for commercial-free war coverage. Cable news networks also covered the story full time."

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"Fox News Channel won the cable ratings race for the breakout of war Wednesday, according to Nielsen Media Research. Between 9:30 p.m. and midnight EST, Fox averaged 7.1 million viewers, CNN had 6.6 million and MSNBC had 3.4 million."

and the anchors shill away:

"This is obviously a new kind of air campaign," said NBC anchor Tom Brokaw.

"It may be the time...to thanking our lucky stars that we live in the United States of America," Rather said.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/5441314.htm

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1. Not one of Dan's finer moments. From challenging Nixon to "I believe my

President" regarding Iraq. I think many left him because he stopped being Dan the Man and became just another knee jerk *bot. Look what it got him.

[Earth_First]

2. "commercial-free war coverage"

Not sure what's worse: that there is a market for this, or the 'war' over media ratings associated with this type of coverage.

[Maple]

3. Do you remember the web cam?

I was glued to it for weeks, don't know why...just watching a normal city go about it's business.

Nice buildings, trees, statues, traffic, horns blaring every now and then, people talking in the distance....and now, all gone.

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4. You mean Baghdad? n/t