It began during the Iraq Invasion. Whenever I tuned into CNN, up until then my first choice in news, I found myself evermore weary and frustrated with the sanitized, "we're more butch than FOX News" war coverage displayed on their USA network. It seemed that all the commercial American networks, what with their officially sanctioned and censored embeds and the like, had been relegated to mere sports announcers dutifully calling the game and towing the administration's line. More and more often I would surf over to CNN International, which I found to be significantly less slanted towards a coalition of the willing cheerleading role, and about as often to NWI, the CBC's cable news network piped to the US. Geez, what a difference editing makes! It was like they were covering a completely different war than the American news channels.
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