Why might the rise of Middle Eastern cable news networks, such as al-Jazeera, have hurt the U.S. during the 2003 Iraq War?
a. Power now no longer necessarily flows to those who can withhold information, as the U.S. had with largely western media during the Persian Gulf War of the early 1990s.
b. They are all owned by Arab states, and actors with more power within a particular region are better able to push a narrative, regardless of factual basis.
c. They ended a previous U.S. monopoly on cable TV news, allowing for regional framing of issues involved with the war and undercutting American soft power.
d. They were the first to report that WMD were not found in Iraq after the U.S. invasion, and counter American suggestions that Saddam Hussein had ties to al-Qaeda.
Answer: C
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