Good Night, and Good Luck Dodging the Sniper Fire  Marcel Ophüls
on the heroic idealists and cynical mollycoddles of wartime
journalism  "Stay away from CNN." Those were among Colin
Powell's first words of advice to Bush during the plotting of
the invasion of Afghanistan. Perhaps the president recalled the
warning while Anderson Cooper discovered his manhood in the
flooded bayou, shouting in outrage that the government had
betrayed the people, or when, a few days ago, the cable news
outlets saw fit to point out that the Q&A session between Bush
and American soldiers was staged (as if that were a novel
occurrence...). Just as Bush's lockdown of the American press
seems to be unraveling, the Bell is screening Marcel Ophüls's
long essay-movie The Troubles We've Seen: A History of
Journalism in Wartime. Though the movie takes many hours to
restate things we already knew, there's still a terrible shock
in hearing a French cameraman tell us that his country's
military was worse than our own when it came to hiding t