When I woke up Sat morning after the initial raid on Baghdad 15 years ago, I blearily turned the tube on to CNN. Just in time to see a reporter and his cameraman looking out various windows of the hotel they were in, and taping things like a Sattelite dish "This is about 2 miles west of our hotel room in the Baghdad Marriot in central Baghdad", a radio antenna, "This is about 3 miles east of our hotel room", and a building with a lot of stuff on top of it, "This is about 5 blocks from our hotel room, to the northwest."
Now I was working nights then, for a Defense contractor, so we had a little overtime that night; I got hom about 3 AM and this report was on CNN at about 8 AM. So it took a few minutes...
Never had to wonder why the Defense Ministry in Baghdad wanted to screen further reports before going out, though!
Last night, NBC, some reporter in some town a little bit over the Lebanese border:
"All the Lebanese and civilians have left the city; the only remaining residents don't want to be photographed, since they are all Hezbollah geurillas..."
I tell you, if I were Israel....
Boom!, Boom, see...BOOM!