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...When CNN made history on the night of January 16 with their continuous live reporting from Baghdad, they were in a certain sense players because the U.S. military could watch CNN and judge instantly the partial success of the operation," Range explains. "That's never happened before...
...folks at CNN became part of the family. But every now and then we needed some relief, something sweet and harmless. Bambi was the year's best-selling video, and the crowds at Disney World fell off only slightly. The biggest star of the season was a 10-year-old kid you never heard of, whose movie, Home Alone, made studio heads cry -- especially the ones who turned down the script. Gary died on thirtysomething, but Nancy survived her cancer, and Bart Simpson passed all his courses...
...anchormen have come home. Star correspondents Arthur Kent and Bob McKeown are eagerly anticipating their next contract negotiations. Even for David Letterman, the end of the war brought a sense of relief. "Finally," he said, "we can go back to ignoring CNN...
...media and the military were one of the most publicized sideshows of the gulf war. The battle lines were drawn early and hammered repeatedly. The Pentagon forced reporters to work in pools and imposed other restrictions on coverage; journalists, naturally, objected that they couldn't do their job. CNN's Peter Arnett and other TV reporters sent back dispatches from Baghdad showing civilian casualties; the public, naturally, complained that such reports were aiding the enemy. CBS correspondent Bob Simon, who had bucked the pools to strike out on his own, was captured, along with three colleagues, by Iraqi soldiers...
...While CNN correspondent Peter Arnett slaved away in his hotel room in Baghdad, providing what was then the only--albeit censored--reports from inside Iraq, he obviously hadn't forgotten the fairer pleasures of American academia. If you look carefully at a post-war photograph printed in a recent Boston Globe, you can discern the writing on Arnett's partially-obscured sweatshirt: "Harvard and Radcliffe...