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The guns of August. (Covering the Gulf War)

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From: Columbia Journalism Review
Date: 19910301
Author:Rowse, Arthur E.

In a piece published on January 10 -- five days before the deadline set by the U.N. for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait -- New York Times columnist Anna Quindlen quoted a seasoned legislator in Anthony Trollope's Phineas Finn explaining the stages of forming public opinion: from the chimerical to the possible, then on to the probable and, finally, the absolutely necessary. This, she said, was how the war option evolved for the United States after Iraq invaded Kuwait.

That the news media played a significant role in this evolutionary process is indisputable, as is the fact that, ...

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