Wall-to-Wall Whitewashing
Department
Art
Document Type
Editorial
Publication Date
12-7-2018
Abstract
During the late CST evening hours of January 17, 1991, the much-promised and anticipated fireworks began.
For weeks prior NBC’s Lester Holt’s daily announcements were mortifyingly sinister. Much like a tease for a big event, the oft announced “Countdown to the war in Iraq” was repeated during NBC’s daily station breaks. And much like the media’s announcements about the countdown for a Super Bowl game or a national championship college playoff game, Holt’s promise came to fruition during the January 17, 1991 late evening hours.
And for the first time in history war turned into a real time spectator sport, a mind-boggling atavistic frenzy of fiendish fire unleashed in sadistic synchronicity from the air, land, and sea.
Publication Title
CounterPunch
Recommended Citation
Halaby, Raouf J. Professor Emeritus, "Wall-to-Wall Whitewashing" (2018). Articles. 146.
https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/articles/146