8月2日凌晨,伊拉克10万大军以闪电般的速度袭击科威特,一场空前严重的政治、军事危机在海湾地区随之爆发。作为新华社驻中东记者,我有幸直接参加了这次危机的新闻报道工作,同时也有机缘从近距离对美国同行的工作进行观察和研究。全力以赴海湾危机爆发后,美国新闻界全力以赴投入报道,驻开罗的美国各新闻单位当然也是忙得不可开交。过去,美国之音每天对中东广播13个小时,从8月15日起改为昼夜24小时广播。一个多月中,美联社每日播发的新闻中有关海湾危机的内容至少占1/3,最 In the early hours of 2 August, 100,000 Iraqi troops attacked Kuwait with lightning speed. An unprecedented political and military crisis broke out in the Gulf. As a reporter for Xinhua News Agency in the Middle East, I was fortunate to have participated directly in the news coverage of this crisis. At the same time, I also had the opportunity to observe and study the work of American colleagues from a short distance. After all-out efforts to launch the Gulf crisis, the U.S. press devoted all their efforts to investing reports. Of course, the U.S. press units based in Cairo were extremely busy. In the past, the Voice of America broadcasts 13 hours a day in the Middle East daily, and broadcasts it day and night 24 hours a day from August 15 onwards. For more than a month, the Associated Press daily news coverage of the Gulf crisis at least accounted for 1/3, most