From a New York Times story by Michael M. Grynbaum and Katie Robertson headlined “Cable News Covers Ukraine With On-the-Ground Reporting and In-Studio Rhetoric”:

The 24-hour television news cycle took on a new kind of challenge on Thursday: a ground war unfolding in Europe.

On CNN, Russian tanks rolled in the background of live shots from Ukraine as explosions rumbled and rockets arced overhead. Wearing body armor and crouched behind a building, the correspondent Matthew Chance delivered a live report as Russian soldiers, just a few feet away, seized an airport just outside the capital city, Kyiv.