Looks like a good bet the US could initiate/step up military action in the next day or two. Are you doing anything different that usual to monitor the situation? Listening to a different radio/TV station? Listening to more radio/TV? Checking certain websites?
Does it matter to you how quickly you learn of the “official” start of this war?
And when it starts, will you be glued to your TV? Or will you try to avoid it?
Personally, I’m not doing much. Caught the Pres’ press conference last week, but didn’t listen to the Pres last night. Didn’t even know he was on. I read the Chicago Trib daily, but rarely watch TV news. Don’t have cable anyway. Tend to listen to talk/news radio maybe 30 min a day when in the car (only brief trips on most days) or when cooking dinner.
It seems as tho this war is pretty much inevitable, so the precise start date isn’t that important to me. I have no need to be the “first person on my block” with the news. Figure it will spread pretty quickly, wherever I am. Don’t plan on changing anything significantly once we are officially “at war” than I’m doing now.
I monitor it via the web during the day, and on television in the morning and evening. I was home with a broken arm during the last desert war, and I was addicted to it. Now that I’m working, I’ll probably be much saner than last time around. Too much exposure makes my brain hurt!
Any news web site should be enough to get new developments. Of course, shopping around (and even looking at international news sites) will give a broader picture, but to know if anything at all happened . . . actually, most big newspapers have email updates for important news also. So you can get immediate updates that way too.
Okay, I admit it! I watch FoxNews a few times a day. (You can blame this on d_redguy’s parents. It was the only thing they ever watched when we lived with them.) Since the “war” news began, I’ve been checking out CNN and MSNBC once in a while, too- Just for variety.
When we are in the car, we often listen to 680 am talk radio. So we get news there.
The local news is not terribly helpful, nor are our local papers.
The web is a pretty good source of info. I usually check out a few things a day.