On the other hand, both this article in the New York Times and this one in Salon take a closer look at the sanitization of TV coverage of the war, most notably for US audiences who, presumably, can't stomach the awful images that are part of the ugly reality of modern warfare. Is violence OK in movies but not OK on the news?

As a homework assignment for American guests on this blog, I'd like you to please read both stories and then tell me how you rate both network and cable news coverage of the war. Do you have access to channels from outside the US and if so, how do you compare them? Did you prefer print media, and by natural extension, their websites? For non-American vistors, you all get CNN I'm sure, so how does your own local coverage differ?

Please keep politics and every channel's perceived (and sometimes obvious) agendas out of the discussion. I'm only interested in the imagery of war shown on your news channels.