Imagine if World War II were covered like Iraq is being covered.

Most people today seem to think that after D-Day the Americans just stormed into Germany and the war was over.  Far from it. Instead, for the first couple of months the Americans and British got stuck in "Hedgerow" country in northern France. A stalemate was largely the result as it took considerable time for the Americans to break out.

But imagine if CNN were covering that. You'd have interviews with nominal Axis allies. No doubt the Vichy French would have weighed in on the "unilateralism of the Americans, British, and Canadians". Words like Quagmire, Stalemate, mounting losses would have no doubt been sprinkled in for good measure.

By December 1944, 6 months later, the Western allies were making good progress. Of course, that's when the battle of the bulge occurred. I don't even want to contemplate how CNN and its ilk would have covered that.