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I'm not even American, but CNN coverage of the 1990-91 Gulf War really put them on the radar. The whole Middle East watched CNN Live coverage.
by wisam 6y ago
I'm not even American, but CNN coverage of the 1990-91 Gulf War really put them on the radar. The whole Middle East watched CNN Live coverage.
- mbg721 6y agoAnecdotally, (and I am American) it was also somewhere between the Gulf War and the OJ Simpson trial that cable changed from some exotic thing that rich people paid for to something a lot of your friends had.
- spaetzleesser 6y agoI remember there was this CNN guy in Bagdad that reported the air attacks live from there. That definitely put them on the map.
- evgen 6y agoBernard Shaw and a couple of other reporters from what I remember. I distinctly recall tuning in a few minutes after things started and listening to them hide in the hotel room as Iraqi security started to clear the hotel that all of the reporters were staying in at the time.
- dhimes 6y agoWolf Blitzer, IIRC, did that.
- lukateake 6y agoWolf Blitzer was the CNN reporter at the Pentagon that day. He appears in the first video linked above.
- DonHopkins 6y agoAl Franken and his One Man Mobile Uplink! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHKiVkeup2o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHKiVkeup2o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCwYfNo3BGU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCwYfNo3BGU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxyMnhqhEII https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxyMnhqhEII
- spaetzleesser 6y agoJust remembered: Peter Arnett. He was the only one who had a phone line out from Iraq during the first attacks.
- bena 6y agoDude had a cameo in the first Ghostbusters. Larry King was already a known entity. There's a reason CNN picked him up. Never mind, I got mixed up, you're talking about just CNN.
- selimthegrim 6y agoHe also went with Snoop to Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles and did not appear to enjoy the food.
- epc 6y agoJust in the past week someone posted what appears to be control room video from CNN in 1991 (and others): https://youtu.be/5CxWCWhs-uc https://youtu.be/5CxWCWhs-uc - start of the US air war, https://youtu.be/RpClxMvpEmM https://youtu.be/RpClxMvpEmM - second hour.