Nerve-wracking???

[Punkitup]

Anyone besides me find watching the news and waiting for the next move to be nerve-wracking? Particularly following yesterdays run-and-gun into Baghdad.

Part of the problem is I am having a hard time finding the off switch on the television. The news is always on, other then short periods of a couple hours at a time when I force myself to watch something else.

Pray for Peace
James – USMC 1980-84

"Armed and Curious" (http://www.radiofreerecording.com/armed.jpg) - The George Bush story

 

[gcutler]

It has reached the point where I only watch the news for 2-3 half hour stretches a day. Early on it was on all the time, and it was emotionally draining. And with them just reiterating the same stuff over and over again even if nothing new can be added (as if there is no other news going on in the world) makes it easier to skip the news.

[RandyAB]

I find that if I watch for a half hour in the morning, and then a half hour at night I get the full effect and I generally get the full story. Then I do not have to deal with all of the breaking news that they have...that ends up being the same thing that they just reported 10 minutes ago, or they find out that it is incorrect.

[firephoto]

I recomend 2 less cups of coffee a day and at least 1 hour of exposure to real daylight that comes from the sun. ;) That should have a calming effect on your nerves. :lol:

Some of those videos of the Iraqi artillery at night from very close and BEHIND them when they were in Baghdad was a big WoW.

[Jacob S]

Sometimes its not the same to watch it later after it had happened as it is when it happens live and the mood it sets upon the people reporting it.

[Punkitup]

Originally posted by Jacob S
Sometimes its not the same to watch it later after it had happened as it is when it happens live and the mood it sets upon the people reporting it.

Content is a factor as well. Take the video FOX was broadcasting live during that run-and-gun through Baghdad, when it was shown later there was quite a bit edited out for time. For instance in the original airing you could see a US tank crew emptying gerry-cans of water into the engine compartment of their tank in an attempt to extinguish a fire. Later you can see a US Soldier throwing what I assume was a thermite-grenade down the hatch of that same tank in an effort to permanently disable it, as the camera vehicle drives away you can see the tow bars had been attached to that tank and they then decided to abandon the effort. One other possibility was that the grenade down the hatch was smoke to mark it for an air strike. But either way, later when I saw Iraqi film of people dancing on the burned out hulk of the tank and claiming they destroyed it, I knew the real deal.

I never heard the FOX brain trust mention any of these plainly visible details (not surprising; they're not the brightest) and the poor reporter in the field was too busy to do so. It may be minutiae but it is interesting to catch stuff like this in the unedited airing of reports. 

Pray for Peace
James – USMC 1980-84

"Armed and Curious" (http://www.radiofreerecording.com/armed.jpg) - The George Bush story


 

[waydwolf]

I'm not finding it nerve-wracking at all. This is the sort of lopsided butt-kicking that all the naysayers said wouldn't happen. I'm almost disappointed they didn't put up more resistance and give the lefties something to point at. Now they'll have to invent events that never happened to justify their blather about this being another Viet Nam.

The stock ticker on Bloomberg is more exciting.

Hats off to the coalition troops!

[Bogy]

I'm one of the naysayers who still thinks the war was a mistake. We seem to have won a battle, but we are a long way from winning the peace. I see absolutely no reason to believe at this point that terrorism has been decreased one iota. I'm very thankful that this conflict has gone as quickly as it has, with as few casualties as we have suffered so far (Iraqi casualties on the other hand are another matter). I hope the nation building can begin, but it's going to be a long, slow struggle.

[Punkitup]

It is possible that I wasn’t clear or some folks mistook my meaning of “nerve-wracking”. There is no doubt what the outcome will be, it’s just a matter of time. I allude to the anticipatory waiting; what will play out on our televisions next?

You don’t have to compromise any position you may have on the war to concede that we are watching history unfold via a medium never before available. It may sound shallow, and I apologies to anyone who takes umbrage, but I submit that anything else on television pales in comparison of interest. 
 
Pray for Peace
James – USMC 1980-84

 

[Richard King]

I submit that anything else on television pales in comparison of interest.Submitted and agreed to. This is amazing television. Talk about a "reality show". I have never watched "Survivor", but this has to cheapen that program in every way possible.

[Richard King]

This tells it all...