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March 21, 2003
I want my awesome shock! "Let's face it," admitted the mid-afternoon anchor on BBC News 24, as he introduced yet another map showing the one small house targeted in case Saddam Hussein was in it, "no one expected this." Turning hopefully to his pundit of that hour, he asked: "So - shock and awe coming up?" Over on Sky News, Kay Burley was stuck with pictures of B-52s, which were supposed to have dropped the awesome shocks, still on the ground in Gloucestershire. "If they were to be in Iraq tonight, when would they have to leave?" she asked military expert Francis Tusa. But, like a pathologist faced with a body, Tusa would only commit himself to a long range of times. The pictures of the bombers in Gloucestershire filled the screen again. "Causing massive destruction in Baghdad this evening?" wondered Burley. "Stay tuned." Before the war started, the main fear of the broadcasters had been false information. They had not allowed for what they now faced - a false start - although perhaps that resulted from deliberate false information. [permalink | reply | tb ] |
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