I’m officially fed up with the television media’s insistence that their coverage is so great, so unprecendented, so you-are-there. All you need to do is read this story from today’s Washington Post to see that television cannot come close to competing with print.

But I should say that I watched the Ted Koppel special on ABC last night. It was the first TV report which gave a real sense of the war as it happens — and it used footage that was days old. The old system of non-instantaneous but comprehensive coverage really was superior to what we have today.