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just an anecdote
I was in Spain when the Iraq invasion happened. After months of overwhelmingly jingoistic media coverage here in the US, I was deeply impressed by the complexity of the Spanish media's coverage and how critical they were "allowed" to be. In addition, large political entities, such as city governments, issued anti-war proclamations -- and this was the Coalition of the Willing! On my return, the first thing I heard/saw after clearing customs at JFK was a TV tuned to 24-hour news, on which there was a CNN reporter asking a uniformed soldier holding his toddler daughter, "Tell us what you did to secure little Katie's freedom." Appalling.