Top 100 bits of war coverage you've seen that have NOT made you exasperated

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Bits that will actually help to convince average people of important things.

(Moderators: we should have an "Iraq and War" thread category, because the irony of having to classify these as "9/11 and After" is just too, too strong. I have commandeered "A bit of the old ultra violence" for this one.)

1.) Joe Biden on Charlie Rose stressing the question of invasion vs. occupation and warning how difficult and important it will be to have broad international support for a transition government.

2.) Peter Jennings and ABC stressing that al-Jazeera is actually a big independent threat to most mid-East autocracies and has pissed off people like the Sauds for the exact opposite reasons so many Americans think they must be bad.

3.) Patriotic Union of Kurdistan leader doing network-news rounds and being really shifty about their level of support for an independent Kurdistan, and hopefully leaving enough lingering portent in his statements about the Turks to at least make people notice what an intensely delicate mess we're upsetting for that entire situation.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 21 March 2003 05:43 (twenty-three years ago)

4) Tonight's coverage of the protests here in Portland -- three highways shut down by protesters! So far, peaceful! Even decent reportage by the media, or at least the channel I was watching (the coverage on another channel was horrible). So that's made my evening.

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 21 March 2003 05:48 (twenty-three years ago)

(5) A retired general on a local talk show who articulated various scenarios for the unfolding war that would forgo Rumsfeld's vaunted "shock and awe" attacks on Baghdad.

(6) Lake Shore Drive in Chicago apparently shut down by protestors, from the Loop to Hollywood (on the far north side). No violent incidents reported.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 21 March 2003 05:55 (twenty-three years ago)

7) BBC's "Iraq War at-a-glance" web page. Just the main points w/o flash, fancy graphics, and idle speculation.

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Friday, 21 March 2003 06:40 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread's sudden death is depressing.

(Mods: someone's repeated the category request in the mod thread -- let's do it!)

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 22 March 2003 00:21 (twenty-three years ago)

anything that makes it seem like it'll be over sooner rather than later, and the recent lack of constant comments about gas attacks - that's what I'm considering 'not exasperating'.

The story abt the 12 marines and UK troops who died in the catastrophic mechanical failure of their helicopter this morning - that was extremely exasperating. Fucking Marines need some new equipment for crying out loud, quit buying F22s and get those poor bastards a set of fresh wings for crying out fucking loud. The Osprey doesn't count.

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 22 March 2003 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

8) MTV2-US just played System of a Down's antiwar song/video "Boom." Compare this to MTV-Europe, where the Broadcast Standards Manager "recommended" that this and other songs with war-related imagery or titles not be played. (This is the first time in a week that I turned on the channel and didn't see MTV's "embedded" reporters in camoflage.)

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 22 March 2003 00:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Peter Jennings had practically a whole hour covering anti-war sentiment around the world, including a piece on the Arab world that didn't just show people screaming and burning flags. How long before his plug gets pulled.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Saturday, 22 March 2003 11:23 (twenty-three years ago)

B-b-b-but I saw a clip of George Michael singing some anti-war song on MTVE the day the war started!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 22 March 2003 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

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