The people's rapacious appetite for news as events unfolded probably began at the outset of the Gulf War, when the USA believed it had to overrun Kuwait. What was initially thought to be a short surgical strike that would last only a week, we know never stopped. During Operation Desert Storm, we were given the impression that cameras were actually following the tanks into war zones and bringing us live coverage from ground zero, just as Sanjaya narrated the events of the Kurukshetra War ...