How Much War Coverage Do You Watch?

[Uncle Peter]

All Day, All Night, Part of the day Or Night????

[DDRio]

Part of the Day

[PSB]

24/7 if I could, but I got to work : ( but its the first channels I turn to after compleating an installation, just to keep up to date, but all I watch is news anyway, cant really see the point in watching anything unless its LIVE, same with sports if it aint live its history!

[Mark Lamutt]

Complete coverage on the cable news channels, and no coverage except for local and national news coverage on the major network channels.

[John Walsh]

pretty much all the time- well I do sleep a little

[cooper]

Constantly. Unless I'm working or sleeping.

[James_F]

Not much, I'd rather read about it than put up with those awful anchors asking stupid questions to retired generals who don't really have any clue how to look at a camera.

[Mike123abc]

Do you have a choice now? Seems every station is consumed with Iraq news.... I do not think you will be able to avoid Iraq for the next week.

[Steve Mehs]

Watched coverage all last night and from 10AM until now with 2 breaks.

[Sandman]

Retired, most of the day on the cable news channels, sleep at night

[firephoto]

I watched Howard Stern for 5 minutes last night, slept for about 5 hours maybe, CBS news for 15 minutes, NBC news for 20 minutes, Fox news for 5 minutes, and CNN the rest of the time when I haven't been on the phone this morning.

So I've been watching a little war coverage I guess.

[gcutler]

Just enough until I'm emotionally drained. Watch a little tivo or 508 and then back to watching until I can't bare it anymore.

[lee635]

I've been checking out the c-band feeds. One of em has a camera setup looking out at a landing strip and you can see the stealth fighters landing. I didn't know they use a parchute to land.

And it sounds like they are very quiet, too, you can hear the wind rustling as they land....

[dlsnyder]

All day at work, on the radio while driving home (CNN and BBC feeds on public radio) then all through the evening until bedtime on FOX News. Total about 16 hours not counting food and work breaks.

We were even ready to go with a live feed at church last night (I run the sound board). Our pastor decided against it though because by the time we got it set up there was nothing to see.

[Bill D]

I watched about 5 or 6 hours yesterday, all the hours I was on the air working at MSNBC. Hours in between I found a quiet spot with a computer.. like now.. :)

[Rainbird]

24/7 is fine with me. This is the "real" reality TV and the mother's milk of journalism. If you remember back to the last gulf war people were glued to the TV set. Believe me the broadcasters have not forgotten this fact!

[Jacob S]

This is something I would not watch on a PVR because of how things change so quickly being war and not knowing the latest that had happened if you would watch a PVR event.

I watch this a lot, most of the time when I am home, but I try to watch something else when I can and then check back on it to see if something new is up. If this is going to be a long war then I think the networks will let up on coverage, as I can see why they would cover it so much since it had just started.

[DmitriA]

What I don't like is that most of the channels don't have a small window to show which commentator is currently talking if they are showing the reruns of the footage from the battlefield (which most of the the time they are). When you are fast forwarding through paused broadcasts, you have no way of telling which military analyst is currently talking or the subject he is talking about

[Richard King]

I think I slept about 3 hours last nightttttttt zzzzzzzzz.

[sorahl]

All day.
At work I have the Clinton News Network on (now that Sky News cut their fed), in the car Fox News on XM, and Fox News at home. I've gotten a lot less sleep since Weds night. ....
I'm a junkie!

[disker]

FOX News Rocks. Far and AWAY the best coverage. The other news channels are usually doom and gloom and I sometimes wonder if they aren't shills for Iraq.

Anyhow, 8AM 'til 12PM every day the FOX News is on here. In addition, I get nearly continuous updates via the net.

[music_beans]

I usually watch FOX news too, especially when the bombs drop! BOOOM!

[James_F]

http://www.wagtoons.com/images/2001_0918.jpg

[Rick_EE]

Interesting cartoon illustrating how wrong the main network news people can be.

[Steve Mehs]

I haven't been watching much coverage the past 2-3 days. It seemed last week this time my tv was always on, now I just tune in every few hours. I wish we could get Sky News here in the US.

[PSB]

Hey guys, you can watch the BBC news live 24/7 on-line at..........
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/live/now4.ram I think its BBC24 or BBC world.
if that link dont work try this one...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/

[Mike123abc]

Yeah I have tried to watch it, mainly listening to it. They could use a good doubling or tripling of bandwith. It is 34kbs.

[PSB]

Yep its a shame, but at least its free, I have a broadband connection, so I wish they would kick it up a notch or two with the band width!

[Kagato]

I stick to NPR. Fox and CNN are entertainment television as far I can tell. Although for least biased I'd have to say the News Hour on PBS. They don't do sound bites, so they'll play a good minute or two, or three, or (snore) four of an interview or press statement. Debates are organized and don't degrade into uninformed shouting matches. BUT, it's very very boring. NPR seems to take a middle ground. Edit enough to make sure it's not boring, with an honest attempt to be unbiased.

[DmitriA]

Originally posted by Kagato
...with an honest attempt to be unbiased.

You can't be serious!

[Kagato]

I'll preface that with NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered programs and not what ever local/regional op-ed programming you might hear. But otherwise I stand behind it.

[buzzdalf]

Down to just watching a couple hours a day, was constant for first 2 days.
Getting most of my coverage from Fox News. I think their embedded reporters do a better job than some of the other networks.

[DmitriA]

I like the superb selection of military analysts on MSNBC (McCaffrey, Schwarzkopf, etc - wish they would put them on more often though). I also found that their news analysts (particularly the Lester guy - forget his last name) generally ask quite intelligent questions compared to some of the other networks which rehash the same questions day and in day out or ask something completely ignorant

[mattb]

Personally I pefer Fox News and my TV hasnt left Fox News since the first attack.

[buzzdalf]

Oliver North is definitely my favorite embedded reporter.