Programmes reporting on the Gulf War were faced with the dilemma of relying to a very large extent on information controlled directly or indirectly by the military. They supplied, contextualised and interpreted most of the images of war and timed their release for optimum political impact. So how did current affairs programmes react at very short notice in ways which helped provide perspective to their viewers?
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The war of the allied forces in the Gulf was to be televised live as never before. But military censorship soon settled in banning the real significant info. This…