You have probably read it, but if not, you might like to read "Manufacturing Consent", which discusses much the same behaviour in various previous western wars. The whole Iraq thing played out just like Chomsky and Herman wrote: leadership wanted a war and there was nothing anyone could do about it.

If you follow the ISW Ukraine updates¹ then you will see them calling this "setting conditions" when Russia does it.

¹ https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-confli...

ETA: no idea why we're discussing this on a thread about Google timers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

These are both opinion pieces and not the editorial boards thankfully, but they don't exactly have spotless records their either.

Also, neither were as reputable as CBS or NPR at the time. (And as for suggestions I misremembered it; I certainly did not. NPR covered it for at least a week on my way into work, and I distinctly remember where I was when I watched the TV reports with the photos.)