New York Times
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
“Shock and awe” should be the code name for the Pentagon’s media strategy. The first full day of television coverage of the invasion of Iraq revealed not the fog of war but a firestorm of amazing combat images.
From Navy fighter jets roaring off the deck of the carrier Constellation to grainy, green night-scope glimpses of American tanks moving across the Kuwaiti border into Iraq, television showed more live military action in one day than in the entire 1991 war