I love this picture from the last Israeli war: people in Lebanon watching their own war on TV. Can it get more absurd and surreal? Or do we only accept reality if it’s shown on TV?

The realtime war started with the first Gulf war and CNN’s brave reporters. I still get shivers thinking about the nightly live reports from Peter Arnett, Bernard Shaw and John Holliman.

9/11 brought us live terrorism and since then reporting from the fronts has been almost webcam live sex: available 24/7 and from all sides of the conflict.