A Brief History of the Evolution of War Coverage

WWII: Sanitized Newsreels and old news in the paper.

Vietnam: Waiting for Uncle Walter and the nightly news. Hey look, color moving pictures, and from the same day!

Gulf War I: This is CNN! (We thought we were in info-heaven with one 24 hour news channel and news in the newspaper that was only 8 hours old.)

Gulf War II: Live footage of the exact moment the war starts, info on intel operations within 24 hours, live footage of troops crossing into enemy territory, four cable news networks, newspapers updated constantly on the web, and the Blogosphere.

My, how times have changed.