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Sat 03 Mar 2003Do not adjust your set
The media's war reporting tactics can be just as insidious as blatant regime propaganda, writes Eddie Holt
The invasion of Iraq has been accompanied by an invasion by 24-hour TV news channels. During the 1991 Gulf War, there was only one such channel based in Britain. Sky News was then only two years old and America's CNN dominated the 24-hour news market. Now there are three British channels - Sky News, BBC News 24 and the ITV News Channel- transmitting "rolling" news .
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