Were the embedded reporters the sealing of the deal? Always thought that was fckn stupid…
Reminded me of a segment on Roger Waters' Amused to Death: (From wikipedia)
The second song, "What God Wants, Part I", follows and contrasts the moving words of Razzell by opening with the TV being tuned instead into an excerpt that sounds like it's taken from a vox pop of a child who says, "I don't mind about the war. That's one of the things I like to watch – if it's a war going on. 'Cos then I know if, um, our side's winning, if our side's losing…" he is then interrupted by the channel being changed and a burst of ape-chatter.