December 21, 2001
The BBC: How to Be Impartial in Wartime
In January 1991, American television viewers became aware of what was, to most of them, a new phenomenon: 24-hour news. Although Cable News Network had been around for the previous 11 years, it was not until the gulf war that the network became a household name. (On the first day of the war, nearly 12 million Americans watched CNN, compared with the network's usual average of 1.5 million.) CNN gained so many viewers that its success generated the sincerest form of flattery: imitators MSNBC
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