NBC premiered ‘Saving Jessica Lynch’ Sunday night, a two-hour depiction of the events surrounding the capture, imprisonment and heroic rescue of Private First Class Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi ...

A pretty U.S. soldier captured while serving her country in the Iraq war. A daring rescue. One happy ending in a conflict that is far from resolved. The decision to make a TV movie about Army Pfc.

The message of the week is that some televised fictions about real people are more acceptable than others. We can accept creatively enhanced portrayals of people who find themselves thrust into the ...

The Army made it official this past week, releasing a report that the story of Pfc. Jessica Lynch and her company’s ambush in Nasiriyah, Iraq, was more tragic bumbling and happenstance than a heroic ...

Forced to choose between stories about a hero prisoner of war or a young victim of a bizarre kidnapping, American television viewers narrowly went for the kidnap victim. A made-for-TV movie on CBS ...