"Stay away from CNN." Those were among Colin Powell's first words of advice to Bush during the plotting of the invasion of Afghanistan. Perhaps the president recalled the warning while Anderson Cooper discovered his manhood in the flooded bayou, shouting in outrage that the government had betrayed the people, or when, a few days ago, the cable news outlets saw fit to point out that the Q&A session between Bush and American soldiers was staged (as if that were a novel occurrence...). Just as Bush's lockdown of the American press seems to be unraveling, the Bell is screening Marcel Ophüls's... More >>>