Winning CNN Wars   From Parameters, Autumn 1994, pp. 37-56 .  On
the night the Gulf War air attack began, a senior officer in the
Pentagon Command Center, watching the TV transmissions from
Baghdad, checked his watch and consulted those planning the air
attack on the Iraqi central telecommunications tower: "If the
cruise missile is on target . . . the reporter will go off the
air right about . . . (he counts down the seconds) . . .
Now!"[1] ABC and NBC network reports from Baghdad, routed
through the Iraqi communications network, went dead. CNN reports
continued, carried over a dedicated telephone circuit to Jordan
installed before the air attacks.  For more than two weeks CNN
provided the only American reporting from Iraq. CNN's coverage
of the Gulf War was unique and completely redefined live
satellite television news.[2] The Gulf War opened the
possibility that new forms of war and diplomacy were being born.
"Television imagery transmitted by satellite," wrote one
observer, "is irrevocably altering the way