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"Germans appear to be viewing the war through a prism that highlights the human costs, difficulties and risks. Media and political analysts say that perspective springs from three interconnected sources: public attitudes against the war, the German government's opposition to it and the occasionally antiwar tone of German media coverage," the Washington Post's Robert J. McCartney writes.
TomPaine.com commentator Nina Burleigh writes
that the most "mesmerizing" and "frightening" coverage of the war has been the "long swaths of unedited war footage" broadcast on France's Euronews under the words "No Comment." Burleigh writes, "Euronews is receiving the same video imagery as the other two networks. The difference is, viewers can get it straight, in media res. Nothing is explained. ... On 'No Comment' Euronews, we realize that for the participants, war really is unspeakable. Order is an illusion conjured up by the generals and then knitted together for us by the running yak of our anchormen and women."
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