Digested week: prospect of war in Ukraine deserves more than sad face emojis | Emma Brockes

The debate over rolling news coverage of the Gulf war could be cut and pasted into discussions about TikTok clips from Kyiv

I was at high school during the first Iraq war, when rolling news was a relatively new thing. It was wild to turn on the TV and see a correspondent in a flak jacket, filming the bombing of Baghdad through his hotel window, or standing in front of a chain-link fence by a runway, trying to fill in airtime like it was regular TV.