For diplomats and military strategists, the key question arising from Iraq's invasion of Kuwait was this: Could the crisis be resolved without war? For the nation's TV networks, there was a question of almost equal moment: Which would be first to get a correspondent into Baghdad?
The first puzzle remains unanswered, but not the second. In a coup that left its rivals seething, ABC last Wednesday proudly displayed a tape of Nightline's Ted Koppel conducting a softballing 50-minute interview with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz. "Scoops are getting harder and harder to get," said Koppel, who had arrived in Baghdad the...
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