---
title: "Public Interest in Gulf Crisis Unabated"
description: "Report Summary Americans remain as attentive as they were a month ago to events in the Persian Gulf. Sixty-three percent of the public are following news about the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait and the deployment of U.S. forces to the Persian Gulf very closely. Our August survey showed an only marginally higher level of interest […]"
date: "1990-09-14"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/1990/09/14/public-interest-in-gulf-crisis-unabated/"
categories:
  - "Media Industry"
  - "News Coverage"
  - "War & International Conflict"
---

# Public Interest in Gulf Crisis Unabated

## Report Summary

Americans remain as attentive as they were a month ago to events in the Persian Gulf. Sixty-three percent of the public are following news about the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait and the deployment of U.S. forces to the Persian Gulf very closely. Our August survey showed an only marginally higher level of interest in Gulf crisis news (66%).